Analysis of Solitude



From the top of the stairs
She closed her eyes without a care
Feeling a force beguiled with heavenly air
It sewed feathered wings illuminating her halo’s flair

No longer was she a child at five
As she was buzzing with bees that left their hives Collecting sweet nectar from blooms of sweet chives
To pollinate fields of flowers did they all freely dive

Without warning, the sun kissed summer
Turned into a haunting fog, hovering over wooden lumber
Sadly the bees departed, stinging like sticks of an angry drummer
The sweet honey scented wings began to shrink with a sadden slumber

Struggling to open her eyes
Struggling to scream out cries
Struggling to land from a dream of lies
Struggling to say good-bye

What seemed like a thousand years
Visions of nature’s beauty dissipated into frightening fears
Finally did she land safely at the bottom of the stairs
Her flight through time, she vowed never to share

Then came a period in time
Her spirit was broken by a blood stained crime
Unable to remember the details, her zest for life lost its shine
Stricken with rocky mountains of emotions, she was too numb to try to climb

She retreated to a quiet nest of solitude
Loneliness and emptiness cradled her with such magnitude
To those that didn’t understand, labeled her with an attitude
 And called her weak and damn it, how rude

Until later, embedded with memories of bees
Instinctively and passionately she started planting countless roots of trees
Not knowing why, until her garden was laid alongside

A stairway for little travelers like Katydids to reside
Subtle signs, some may call coincidence, she at first called ironic
 From the Universe recited quotes laced in waves of sonic
Tied with a red string connected to Nature’s harmonic

Her ears keenly tuned in, low and behold, she heard notes of symphonic
As each day continued, the Universe and Nature
Delivered sweet quotes in a sheet of music overtures
With amusing hints of wicked humor
Told her to dig thousands of graves and bury all the rumors

Solemnly, sitting in the coldest of nights
Nature’s poems warms her with such delight
Knotted strings loosening just enough to wage a fight
Backed by the Universe and all of his might
Armed with words of power
Shall she scream a story, not only to empower
But truth will pour from her endless tears in a hurricane of showers In the end, her garden of roots will bloom the most beautiful flowers


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Poetic Form
Metre 101101 11010101 10010111001 1110101000101 110110111 1111011111101011011111 1101110111101 011001110 1010101100101010 10010101011111010 01101010111101010 10011001 1001111 1001110111 1001111 1110101 1011010100011001 100111101010101 0111111011 11010001 01011010111 01010100010111111 1011010101011111111 101010101110 1000100101110 1111011001110 010101111 0110010110011 0100010001101010111 11010101011011 0111010011101 10111101001111010 10100101101110 11011010110010 01101010011111010 111010010010 0101100111010 1010111010 101110110101010 10010001011 1010101101 1011001011101 1101001111 111110 1110101101010 111110101001011000101011110110010
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 2,426
Words 437
Sentences 1
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 7
Lines Amount 46
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 178
Words per stanza (avg) 38

About this poem

As I child, I dreamed of having an amazing superpower, flying. I still do as an adult. I wrote this poem during a very confusing period, trying to make sense of a story with no narrative, tightly caged inside my mind. Well, I nearly drove myself crazy until one day, I picked up a pencil.

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Written on December 25, 2022

Submitted by hayley_c on June 10, 2023

2:11 min read
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Hayley Chau

I am a mother that lives a quiet and modest life appreciating nature's four seasons in New England. It's the simple wonders all around me that inspires me to write. more…

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