Analysis of Feeling About the Room
I've spent a lot of time here
in this dark room.
I believe it is within our nature to reach,
hands out, into the dark to find our way-
find comfort.
Only by chance to come upon another,
touching hands, and in their reflex grabbing hold,
clasping before spinning wildly off axis-
as two objects, in their weightlessness, acted upon.
All that is left is the memory of that brief touch...
And in it I imagine her in a world of light.
Seeing her bathed in it, staring into her eyes.
I see my reflection, held there, in Heaven's glass cage
kept in check by the promise of their sparkle.
Looking in I think to myself,
Maybe I have seen this world of light.
Heard its' birds sing,
felt its' breeze.
But... as it is after all daydreams...
I end up here in the dark,
palms out,
feeling about the room.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 0111 1011101101011 11010111101 110 10111101010 10100110101 1011010110 1110011001001 1111101001111 0011010000111 100101100101 1110101101011 10110101110 1001111 101111111 1111 111 11111011 1111001 11 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 771 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 604 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 151 |
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Submitted on November 23, 2012
Modified on April 27, 2023
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