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


Scheme XXX XXX XXX XXXX X XX
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

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Written on January 21, 1991

Submitted by Oakley on January 27, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:04 min read
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I have been writing for 40 years my poetry is about life,death love,and redemption. after having two near death expiercences and a TBI my poetry has become more spirtual more…

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