Analysis of AGAINST THE WAVES
The crowded lift and emptiness of the flat
doesn't help me resurrect what's gone
late at night I may pile hopes on a pale paper
trying to invent a new life to live with
end up seized by pain trolling in the shady light
double bed, blank mirror, and still greyer dawn
the pillow hurts, the image derides,the prayers fail
the roaring inside, the ghostly silence
and unfading darkness. I'm no Odysseus
but keep straying against the waves
--R K Singh
| Scheme | XA XX XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010100101 10110111 111111110110 10101011111 111111000101 1011100111 0101010111 0100101010 0110110100 11100101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 438 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
This is the title poem of my poetry collection AGAINST THE WAVES: SELECTED POEMS (New Delhi: Authors Press, 2021, p. 23) . It is composed in a disturbed state of sleeplessness.
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Written on January 11, 2020
Submitted by profrksingh on September 10, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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