Analysis of A Plea For Their Sanity
Inspired by the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Escape from this everyday life is desirable,
a man swims for the open sea.
But their commitment to their routine is admirable.
Will he ever be set free?
Their wives in wait,
the daytraders set sail at dawn.
Pray not that they will return late,
for fear they've already gone.
Men steer for the sunset,
a beauty insurmountable.
In a valiant attempt to forget
the habitual inescapable.
The greens flourish in such fertile silt,
so the town is not death to all.
But the flowers will wilt and the trees will tilt
when the leaves come crashing down this fall.
Scheme | X ABAB CDCD EAEA FGFG |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101101110 0111101110100 01110101 11010110111000 1110111 1101 011111 11111011 1110101 11101 0100100 001001101 001000100 011001101 10111111 10101100111 101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
Font size:
Submitted on September 25, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
- 33 sec read
- 3 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"A Plea For Their Sanity" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 25 Apr. 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/64657/a-plea-for-their-sanity>.
Discuss this Elijah Kampsen poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In