Analysis of Thinking With the Sit of the Sigh!



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
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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Jeffrey Lynn Naylor

Retired Professor of Literary Criticism, Philosophy, and Religion. Father of 6, grandfather of 6. A lover of all life has to offer. I have traveled the world, lived and worked among many cultures discovering that all people are essentially bound by a common thread. more…

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