Analysis of Insomnia Personified



Blue skies to dark nights
A lifelong routine
Day’s expanse of blue is a welcome sight
But when the night comes
And the dark cascades around me
It swallows the light in its ravenous, unforgiving mouth
Then the villain awakens
The big, bad, indomitable foe
The burglar of sleep
And a harbinger of love for the sunrise
A love born from a way to escape the darkness
To escape drifting off
Into a black whirlpool of recurring nightmares

Dark nights to blue skies
The dawn is my friend
It welcomes the restless and soothes night’s cold sting
The sting that materialized out of hatred for the ceiling
Always there
A wide square above
The only companion of wild midnight eyes
Eyes that play the victim of a trivial crime
The crime of loathing the sun's slow ascent  


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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 766
Words 141
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 13, 9
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 307
Words per stanza (avg) 69

About this poem

This poem is about the recurring experience of sleepless nights. It embodies the thirst for sleep and distrust for night.

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Written on July 19, 2021

Submitted by ThoughtBird8 on March 17, 2023

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Shyani Turnbull

I grew up writing amateur poems and prose. They have been a therapeutic tool of expression. I live in the Tropics, and it has served as inspiration in many aspects of my life. more…

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