Analysis of The Healing Place
Maggie Ransom 1969 (MA)
I am the sTorm I arrive in
Wind wHipped in the sideways rain
Rolling scrEams echo in my head like thunder
Who am I to be in tHis space?
Bring my storm in thE door and begin
Deep within, upheAval; I brace
Wet and frightfulLy damaged
Washed up debris; I am spat from the sea
Like a message peNt up in a bottle
Churned and ravaGed on a jetty manmade
The message; my Past, thrust free
Rageful, afraid; aLone I must cope
Abruptly the storm does pAss; in an exhausted heap I collapse
An unfamiliar peaCe; remembering me
Through swollen red eyEs, spy a rainbow arise
Tendering healing and hope.
Scheme | AXX BABXCXX CDXCX D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011010 110011 10110011110 11111011 111001001 10101011 1010010 1101111101 1010110010 1010101011 0101111 10101111 0100111010101101 1010101001 1101110101 1001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 836 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
This is a rework of a raw journal entry. Both a physical place and an internal place I went to heal. The rainbow happened and truly felt like a sign of hope.
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