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.


Scheme X XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
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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Submitted by johnking1502 on December 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jonahan Ukah

I graduated in English, travelled to German to study but now live in the UK. I am married with a daughter. more…

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