Analysis of The Traveller 2
The Traveller 2
I have travelled from my baby's cradle
to watch the moon tattoo on your face;
but I keep on moving in circles,
the world formed into a ruthless labyrinth
of all that I seek but would never find.
I have felt the ground swell around me,
trees rocked by the helm of my dress,
I jumped when the sky came too close,
or at the sudden disappearance of the sun,
I did not find you in any of these things.
yet I promise to persevere in searching
though I may not find all that I seek;
if you should see me stride across the earth,
my ageing hands lifted to carry the air,
Then know that this is all my call.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100 1110111010 110101111 111110010 0110101010 1111111101 111011011 11101111 11101111 11010010101 11111010111 11101001010 111111111 1111110101 1111011001 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem because I believe that sometimes we spend our life searching for something too intangible to grasp, too far to understand and too close for us to see.
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