Analysis of Message in a bottle
There, there it is again,
Gentle, like two lovers finding each others skin for the first time,
Grabbing at my hands blind,,
And slowly engulfing the entirety of my arms,rising each hair ,
To share a cool whisper
Then vanishing through me
As if I were, what they call “invisible”
The same in all seasons, reliable, dangerous,
I hear what it says , when it shakes the bush,
When the brittle branches of the olive tree next to my abandoned house rain
I listen,
when it ruffles and fluffs the sunbirds feathers, the bird whose nest had blessed my window pane
each summer growing up.
I listen,
Sometimes it says nothing at all,
Sometimes the silence is so palpable,
you could pick it off of the wild olive trees and swallow it whole.
These were the kinds of days where heartbeats were as loud as thunderstorms ,
Where a single step could disintegrate a home into splinters,
Where bullets could pass through thin air like shattered glass.
But today, today is not one of these days.
Today, there are wishes brought from bottles
Bottles brought from waves
Waves brought from somewhere the wind hasn’t touched yet.
Scheme | xxxxxxa bxcDcxD xaxxbx xxxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 1011101011011011 101111 0100100010011111 110110 110011 11101110100 0101100100100 1111111101 1010101010111101011 110 11100101100111111101 110101 110 01111011 0101011100 1111110110101011 10011111011110 10101101001011 110111111101 10101111111 0111101110 10111 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,146 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
About this poem
With turmoil and war plaguing the world, I felt,as many do, helpless and deeply empathizing with those whose world looks dramatically different than my own. This poem is in light of the Palestinian war whose casualties have hit nearly 20,000 people. The perspective of this work is from a young Palestinian girl. The wind, which is unreliable is meant to act as a metaphor for finding hope.
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