Analysis of LEFT IN THE DARK
The caution tape is up
I am telling myself that I had more than enough
I wait hoping for tomorrow,I wait wanting to settle for nothing.
I want it all
I want to be able to pour it into my cereal bowl.
I wear a sign on my chest that reads in crayon closed for renovations.
With your eyes transfixed on my heart
I want you to have a conversation with my love.
I promise you that it will do your soul some needed good.
Sweep away these used thoughts
that occupy the doorstep of my mind
and move the hands of the tick-tock ticking of the old grandfather clock.
I want you to analyze time and space.
I have wasted minutes and seconds in the past trying to go places that I now know I was not meant to be so I always got lost along the way. in the silence of this cold winter's night, I am forced to be left alone to sit and wonder and reflect on who I am and who I want to be.
Still, I stand here in the dark with frost-bitten hands
with a million more questions and really no answers
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111 111011111101 111011110110110 1111 1111101110111001 1101111110111100 11101111 111110010111 11011111111101 101111 11001111 0101101110101101 111110101 1110100100011011101111111111111110101001011110111111101110100011111011111 111100111101 1010110010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 985 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 4, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
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Written on January 21, 1991
Submitted by Oakley on January 27, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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