Analysis of INQUEST
I wandered alone down roads of dirt
That went on for miles uncounted
I drove along fields of lettuce and cotton
And splashed in summer’s ditches
I carefully watched the landscape
as it read my mind aloud
and the colors became me as I became
purple and indigo blue
I spoke to the sky and wondered why
It never seemed to answer
And the trees had faces but most were scary
So I didn’t talk to them
I traveled for miles hundreds it seemed
On my journey within a circle
Yet somehow when I passed again the
Same way the landscape was always anew
I wandered alone down desert roads
And the years were seventeen
And on my tour of inquisition
I met a woman like me
At times I glimpsed a shadow of her
Or the hem of her flowing skirt
We passed without a whisper on days
When silence was more than a word
She’s still there, I know she is
I wonder who she sees
But even more I wonder
If she ever thinks of me
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOHPQCKJARSTUJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011111 1111110 11011110010 0101010 1100101 1111101 00100111101 100101 111010101 1101110 00111011010 111111 110111011 111001010 11111010 11011101 110011101 0010101 01111010 1101011 11110110 10110101 110101011 11011101 1111111 110111 1101110 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 940 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 714 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 179 |
About this poem
This poem in its entirety is about a place I loved and how it made me feel, the person I had become while living there, and how it all looked to me in my abstract mind. The experience truly changed me as a person. I was able to face my fears and win.
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Written on July 17, 2015
Submitted by CindyG on May 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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