Analysis of Ledge
The sun is glaring down on me, it's windy but not cold.
Nature is so beautiful, so calming.
I sit on a ledge pondering
Should I jump?
To die with so much beauty in my eyes.
The thought passes but lingers in the back of my mind.
I wonder if people can see me if they care.
When they drive by do they wonder?
Wonder who I am
What I’m doing
I do.
As I watch from my ledge, I wonder.
Where they are driving too
What their lives are like
I love the loud silence of nature
The wind blowing through the trees
The subtle flapping of birds making their way back home.
The thought creeps back in
Would I survive if I jumped?
Maybe.
The thought passes again.
The wind feels ominous and the clouds are dark now.
I hear crows maybe ravens
It's getting cold now
It's back.
Jump.
Maybe I wouldn’t survive
Maybe.
Attempting to die is not the hard part, failing is.
Waking up and realizing that you are still here.
Still miserable.
Do you think anyone would stop?
Notice?
I’m cold now
My nose is running and my eyes fill with tears.
I dont wanna leave
I have nowhere to go
No home.
No destination.
All I can do is sit and wonder
Wonder if strangers see me.
Wonder where everyone is going.
Doing.
What am I doing?
Maybe jumping wouldn't be so bad
My body would be embraced by nature.
My eyes would see beauty before closing forever
My skin would feel the freeness of the wind.
And my soul
My soul would be at peace.
Not yet perhaps.
I think I will just sit and ponder for a while instead.
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Metre | 01110111110111 1011100110 11101100 111 1111110011 0110110001111 110110111111 11111110 10111 1110 11 111111110 111101 11111 110110110 0110101 0101011101111 01110 1101111 10 011001 011100001111 1111010 11011 11 1 101101 10 0101111011101 101010011111 11000 1111011 10 111 11110011111 11101 11111 11 1010 111111010 1011011 10110110 10 11110 101010111 1101101110 1111100110010 111101101 011 111111 1101 11111101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,503 |
Words | 324 |
Sentences | 35 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 52 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 288 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem while I was struggling with my mental health, I didn’t know what I wanted out of life or if I even wanted to live at all.
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