Analysis of Thinking With the Sit of the Sigh!
Jeffrey Lynn Naylor 1954 (Orlando)
My night is cold and hard,
My day is dark and charred.
With empty dreams I keep,
Repeatedly, piteously to reap
Some new genius, some new dream,
Some new word, some new scheme,
Which will stir my soul
And challenge others with a proper role.
However, the day is eternally too short.
The projects of the night always I abort.
Once upon a time, nothing was my detour,
Attempting anything I would not demur.
Yet, all the years have passed me by,
And now am I left to think with the sit of the sigh.
Somewhere, someone knows something I know.
What is it, this elusive task upon me bestowed?
Where is it, that I might be freed from my solemnity?
Is this the full extent of now and all of forever?
How do I answer? I long to live all the livelong day.
Yet, all I do is stem the tide of growing gray.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFGHHIJKGLL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 111101 110111 0100111 1110111 111111 11111 0101010101 10011010011 0101011101 10101101101 0101011101 11011111 0111111101101 1111011 1111010101101 11111111110100 11010111011010 1111011111011 111111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 773 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 609 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
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