Analysis of The Healing Place



                          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
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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Written on November 24, 2023

Submitted by MaggieRan26 on November 25, 2023

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Maggie Ransom

I am a Caregiver and End of Life Doula. I am ever inspired by the natural world and the nature of people. I live in Maine with my husband and our small menagerie. more…

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