Analysis of Concert Pianist
Shhhh! Quiet!!!! Listen!!!
Can you hear her?
Can you see her sitting there? Sitting in the mist of darkness, surrounded by a sea of pain from yesterday’s gone by.
Can you see her as she positions her fingers?
As she adjusts her soul, the very essence of her being?
Shhh!!! Listen!!!! Watch!!!! Look!!!
As she lifts her eyes to the sky.
As she begins to play the parts of her broken heart.
Can you feel her? Her pain, her sorrow, her inevitable Joy?
Her notes ring out, crying in a loud voice, demanding to be heard.
Telling her story.... Of how she had lost herself somewhere in between the middle of night and day, somewhere in the middle of yesterday and tomorrow.
Of how she had forgotten who she was as her mind slipped away into a dark, dark place of depression caused by domestic violence; betrayal; emotional abuse…
She and her music become one
Embedded in a sea of agony that begins to move to Victory as she starts to heal, to mend, to grow, to take control over her own life,
as she begins to make the choice to choose her reactions to the things that life brings her way.
On she plays, ceaseless hours... Notes of a woman beat down.... damaged...but now healing. Tears falling from her eyes... Crushing End, Halting Stop, Music Dies, Silence..... No More Tears!!!!
| Scheme | AX B X X X B X X X X X A X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 1110 1110101100011100101011111011 111011010010 110101010101010 11011 11101101 1101110110101 1110010100010001 0111100011010111 1001011111011001010110110010110001 1111010111101101010111101011010100010010001 10010011 0100011100101111100111111111110110011 1101110111001010111101 11110101101011111011010110110110110111 |
| Characters | 1,309 |
| Words | 261 |
| Sentences | 28 |
| Stanzas | 15 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 60 |
| Words per line (avg) | 14 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem due to the pain I see in so many people's eyes and the pain I felt growing up with a daddy who was an alcoholic and abusive.
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