Analysis of Dancing Strong



Every time she dons her liquid form, she is wild and gloriously lost.
Each day she hopes that there will be another like it.
In my heart I sob purely for her. The only way I know how.

A blazing kaleidoscope of swirling lights of shame and solitude reveals the entire spectrum of her sentiments. All of them pirouetting, spinning, and leaping, uncensored.
Words that can’t be said out loud, raw words, pure words, blinding her, in her head.
There is an Inner thunder raging and she wonders if she is dreaming because only she claims it.

Life should be erasable, she thinks. At times it is the most desperate notion she has ever conjured
If she can learn how to dim the kaleidoscope to unveil shallow hues, bright only on command
Perhaps for once hell’s lights will not outshine the illuminations inside her head, preventing her from her obligation to remember how he……….


Scheme XAX BXA BXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1001110101111010001 1111111101011 0111110100101111 0100101101110100100101010100111110010010 11111111111100001 1111010100110111100110111 1110100111111011010111010 11111110010101101110101 011111111010101010010010101011
Characters 881
Words 162
Sentences 10
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 77
Words per line (avg) 17
Letters per stanza (avg) 230
Words per stanza (avg) 51

About this poem

This poem was written around 2014 and focuses on a young woman dealing with with a childhood trauma.

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Submitted by pebonger on January 02, 2022

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Bonnie Peters

Bonnie Peters is a Trinidadian poet who studied literature and creative writing at the University of the West Indies, but strayed from creative writing and poetry experience for the last 25 years. Even as she explored other aspects of what life has to offer she has never stopped writing poems and has an anthology of unpublished original poems that chronicles her experiences as a Caribbean woman, from girlhood in Trinidad and Tobago through adulthood while living and working in the united states for the past 25+ years. Several of her poems can be found on peotry.com such as "Dresses," "Dancing Strong," "Weeping Women, Little Girls" and others. more…

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