Analysis of My Silence is Screaming



my silence is screaming,
shouts of a thousand words
begging  to be released from
a motionless playground of
metaphors on swings
caught in the air on high,
similes stuck on monkey bars,
personifications which cannot
get off suspended see saws,
as alliterations wait for their
turn to go down on slides
while the allegories are
immobile on merry-go-rounds,
my silence is screaming while
animation wants to take over the
frozen picture


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP
Poetic Form
Metre 110110 110101 1011011 010011 10011 100111 111101 1110 1101011 11111 111111 101001 01011011 1101101 010111100 1010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 417
Words 71
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 354
Words per stanza (avg) 72
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Submitted on April 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sonia Walker

I have been writing poetry, short stories and articles of interest for over thirty years. Most of my writing has been published in small presses, journals and weekly community newspapers. It is enjoyable to receive positive feedback on my writing. Before retirement, I was an editor and co-publisher for a quarterly journal and monthly newsletter from Anchorage, Alaska. My philosophy is to write something everyday to keep the cobwebs away. more…

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