Analysis of Avenue of tall trees
The dank sky
exploded a deluge
of rain
Spider lightning flashed
from black stratiform
clouds
A cavalcade of trombones
thundered
over the charcoal Landscape
of the
Benbradagh mountains
In the storm
a solitary figure
trudges through the
Roe valley as the angry
rain flagellates
all in its path.
As he stops to take a swig
from
his hip flask
his cigarette turns into
mush.
A few feet away the river
roars
into a maelstrom.
He contemplates jumping in.
He imagines
what it would be
like to no longer exist.
To completely
disappear .
He’s eager to do it.
He feels warm
inside at the
thought
of it.
In an avenue of tall trees
he sits down on a grassy
mound.
He takes off his shoes
and Peter Storm coat.
He stands up
and walks to the edge of
the river bank.
He feels the chains that
held him captive fall and
clank at his feet.
The river smiles
and holds out her arms
to him.
He closes his eyes and jumps…….
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 010010 11 10101 111 1 010101 10 10011 10 110 001 010010 1010 1101010 11 1011 1111101 1 111 101101 1 01101010 1 01010 110100 1010 1111 1111001 1010 01 110111 111 0110 1 11 0110111 1111010 1 11111 01011 111 011011 0101 11011 111010 1111 0101 01101 11 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 947 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11, 14, 11, 4 |
Lines Amount | 51 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
About this poem
The poem is about suicide. Most of the population of West Belfast know someone or worse have had a family member die this way. I am no exception.
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