Analysis of Nomads
Mary Cheyne 1956 (USA)
We are no longer a tribe
With mythic roots
To sustain us
We are without mooring
No roots and stories to give us wings
We came to this country
Renouncing all ties with our past
Becoming nomads
Forced to wander a stolen land
Searching for what we are
Not who we are
Searching for dreams of wealth and power
In a clay soil
Following one Moses
After another
From mountain top
To mountain top
In search of
A place to sing with the Angles
In a land of milk and honey
We search Outside of ourselves
Forgetting that what we seek
We can only find within the stardust
From which we are formed
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001 1101 1011 110110 110101111 111110 010111101 0101 11100101 101111 1111 101111010 0011 100110 10010 1101 1101 011 01111010 00111010 11111001 0101111 111010101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem because I don’t feel like I have a connection to my past and I feel it as a great void.
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