Analysis of Sounds of Silence
SOUNDS OF SILENCE
The Sounds of Silence That plague the hallway,
The frequent disrupting cadence That fastens the floors decay
The hallway to liberation, they call it?
The path to a better reality,
The gateway to a dome of stimuli, isn't it Where the sounds reverberate after every calamity
The cadence is striking
it adds an effect to fate,
The silence is not considered frightening
But the impact is worse than hate
The floor looks wooden from afar,
The planks look cracked and flayed,
They are actually nails, burnt and charred Metal in nature, but naturally attained
There are paintings on the walls,
Different shapes and sizes, different paints But all of them are panicked calls,
Blotched and disfigured by blood stains.
The first painting is bright,
Of two men, a quarter of the way late,
They are red as if bathed by a shield of sunlight
But it's piercing their bodies deciding their fate
The second painting is bucolic
Covered by a field of sugarcane
But there lies a body, like a note unmelodic In the rhythm of silence, looks like a minor in pain
The third painting is different,
It's a bus, travelling in the rain With a pedestrians raising placards like a deterrent But the traffic of silence is the driver's disdain
When a child walks through this deserted hallway
He slips on the floor, his foot falls in a hole
Hoping to see the paintings, hoping to hear what they say
But his whole body goes limp, out of his control
And as the nails grow bigger, swallowing him like prey
He tries to make a noise, tries to tell the world
But he is confused, only his hands left grey And his nails join the lot, pale and curled
There goes another voice Another bright spark of light
Another fire put out, spirits in the hallway rejoice
What could have he done, they say it isn't his fight
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 011101101 01001010110101 011010111 01101010 011011101011010100101000100 010110 1110111 01011010100 10011111 01110101 011101 111001101100101100001 1110101 1001010100111111101 10010111 011011 1110101011 11111110111 11101101011 010101010 10101110 111010101100101101101001 01101100 1011000011001001010100101010110101001 1011110101 11101111001 10110101011111 111101111101 0101110100111 11110111101 11101101111011101101 1101010101111 01010111000101 111111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,823 |
Words | 362 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 20 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 5, 4, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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About war, violence, wrong deeds and struggle
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