Analysis of Silent Despair
Gary Willard 1970 (CT)
What is it of her that I confess today?
I glare at her silhouette with pain.
As I contentedly went about my way,
her path traversed my life one day
and upset the tread in my traveled lane.
Her demeanor was distant, quaint and kept;
it entrapped my fancy with a gentle sting.
She forced my reasoning to become inept
and obsessed my dreams each night I slept.
I surrender to the agony that each day will bring.
Do I suffer more now than I suffered then?
If I bore the authority of the events of time,
would I submit to encountering her again
or remit this moment among the days of when
I considered my state of solitude sublime?
In solitude still, I ponder the mere chance
that perhaps I, alone, could end the despair.
If I could strangle my pride and make an advance,
I would make each day with her more than a glance.
Yet I return to my shadows and adore her from there.
Scheme | ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110110101 11100111 11010010111 01101111 0010101101 0010110101 10111010101 11110010101 001111111 10101010011111 11101111101 11100100100111 110110100001 101110010111 10101111001 0101110011 10110111001 111101101101 11111101101 1101111001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 853 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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