Analysis of Evening Walker
In the still and chilly night a shadowy figure presses on,
Not in haste, but with leisure’s gait mocking the somber
Waning day, insouciant he the evening faced.
Fluorescent street lamps crackle and hum piercing the growing dun
With circles of unnatural light, catching a cat slinking across
The street to do whatever cats do in the tenebrous night.
Teenagers hurry past trying to beat their curfews home
Eating dinners kept on covered with foil, while birds
Are nesting, children’s baths are being drawn.
Everyone’s home living rooms glow out to the street
Televisions flicker, the world is winding down and life is driven
Indoors, where old couples watch game shows and young lovers bicker.
A cold breeze rises stirring dead leaves, their colors unseen
Swirling around the evening walker, the sound rustles
And tumbles like water spilling over its bound.
Radio towers blink red on distant hills like so many
Festive beacons, warning some and beckoning others,
While trees become indecipherable looming demons.
Lightsome the figure presses on undeterred by even looming,
Seeing the moon emerge only to disappear behind the moving clouds,
Yet on he goes into the night where at last our paths diverge.
Scheme | XAX BCX XXX XBA XCX XXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010101010010101 101111110010 10101010101 10111001100101 1101010011001101 01111011001001 1010110111101 101011101111 1101011101 1110111101 1001001110101110 11110111011010 01110101111001 100101010011 010110101011 10101111011110 1010101010010 110111010 10101010111010 10010110101010101 1111010111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,212 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
I like to take walks in the evening, the world is certainly different at dusk than at mid-day, and I much prefer it. The Tercet combined with internal rhyme is a form I really enjoy.
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