Background Noise
Barking across the streets
Family talking in the other room
Eyelids, rubbing the pillow sheets
Brain moving, wandering all over
Laughing down the road
Brother, yelling above my head
Sparkly blue-black paintings in the sky
Now colorized, oranges, pinks, sun arose
Skin prickling, now the blanket thrown
Get up, get on my feet
Take a shower, brush my teeth
Checked the heat, to Nana's we go
About this poem
Written while trying to sleep, with noises and other such distractions preventing me from doing so.
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Written on April 04, 2022
Submitted on April 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABACDEFGHIJK |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 388 |
Words | 66 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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