Analysis of In the Nothing I was Found

In the Nothing I was Found 1973 (Silver Spring, Maryland)



A desert land true to itself:
Rock and rock on a rocky sand,
Far away on a distant land,
Where it had rained rock that cover the ground,
And for water there was none found.
Not even a drop!
‘Till you traverse and crest over the mountain top,
And opened up below is a sea of blue,
Crashing upon the rocks,
And carving them anew.

Not a smile to be found,
Not even a face
In this barren desert,
This lonely place.
But mine of course,
upon my horse
and the rocks below.
This lonely place has nothing to hide,
nothing to show,
But for a man’s heart,
it was always there from the start.

Oh my horse!
How stubborn she is,
To find her own way off the trail she did!
There we found,
More than the ground,
More than the rock,
The door of my heart to unlock.
We had discovered,
Myself and my stubborn horse,
But it was myself I had recovered.

The dessert owes man nothing,
It was here before will be here after,
My star’s light birth;
And when the light is not extinguished in death,
But transformed to something more distinguished in life,
Between chaos and structure,
Enlightenment at last.


Scheme XAABBCCDXD BEXEFFGXGHH FXXBBIIJFJ XKXXXKX
Poetic Form
Metre 01011101 10110101 10110101 1111111001 01101111 11001 111001100101 01010110111 100101 010101 101111 11001 011010 1101 1111 0111 00101 110111011 1011 11011 1111101 111 11011 1101110111 111 1101 1101 01111101 11010 101101 111111010 0011110 1110111110 1111 01011101001 101110101001 0110010 010011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,090
Words 244
Sentences 11
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 10, 11, 10, 7
Lines Amount 38
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 209
Words per stanza (avg) 52

About this poem

I wrote this poem while riding on horseback in Aruba.

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Written on August 04, 2021

Submitted by todd_1 on April 13, 2022

Modified on April 22, 2023

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In the Nothing I was Found

A lover of life, nature and poetry, Todd McMahon has been writing poetry for 35 years. This is his first public submission. more…

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