Analysis of On Silent
Charlene Delfin 1990 (Mandaluyong City)
I'm numbed down by these noises,
But I can still feel your eyes.
Loud in loudest voices,
Sending some quiet, unheard sighs
That alert my thoughts to you.
Like a wakeful owl, I look.
And obediently observing,
Then trying to grasp everything.
For you're like the morning dew
On a gentle, soft petal.
Cool, refreshing, and brand new.
Strangely familiar, local.
It's like you're me sometimes.
We're like the tunes of the chimes.
One was just mimicking.
It's not you, you were starting.
I wish they'll give us poems
That need to become emblems
Or some written, sing-song gems.
Because this poem is too long,
Too long for the both of us.
Because we don't seem this wrong.
Don't have to take up much mass.
We're in order and at peace.
There's never a point to miss.
Everything always makes sense.
When we agree, it's silence.
Scheme | XAXABXCC BDBDEECC FFX GXGXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 1111111 101010 10110011 1011111 101111 001000010 1101110 1110101 1010110 1010011 1001010 111101 1101101 111100 1111010 1111110 1110110 1110111 01110111 1110111 0111111 1111111 1010011 1100111 10111 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 792 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 3, 8 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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