Analysis of White Noise

Naomi Sara Buote 1968 (Prince Edward Island)



you dip
the tip of your toast
in egg yolk
and I watch
as it slides from your lip
and runs down your chin
onto your collar
leaving a sliver of bright yellow
on your white shirt and against
the dreary bleached sky
that blends with the snow,
stretching for miles and miles,
as we sit in our skimmed milk,
decaffeinated morning,
silence bouncing off
the whiteness of kitchen walls,
so smothering and shattering,
I wish we'd drop
a cup, a plate, a fork, a damn knife,
sending it clattering to the floor,
then,  perhaps,  one of us
would finally get to say
some kind of I'm sorry.


Scheme ABCDAEFGHIGJKLMNLOPQRST
Poetic Form
Metre 11 01111 011 011 111111 01111 10110 100101110 1111001 01011 11101 101101 11101011 010010 10101 0101101 11000100 1111 010101011 101100101 101111 1100111 111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 578
Words 116
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 23
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 449
Words per stanza (avg) 110

About this poem

This depicts a real, raw life situation that can be relatable to many in a relationship

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Written on January 19, 2024

Submitted by buotenaomi on March 27, 2024

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Naomi Sara Buote

A retired English teacher currently living in Quebec, Canada who loves to use words to depict real life situations that all can relate too. more…

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