Analysis of Silence
Silly me, falling for you,
Imagining it was mutual.
Love, unconditional, was all I offered.
Every ounce of it, you drank greedily.
Now with your thirst sated, you leave.
Casually. Carelessly. Cowardly.
Everywhere, the lingering echo of your silence.
| Scheme | ABCDEDF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Acrostic |
| Metre | 1011011 010011100 1010011110 10011111100 11111011 1000100100 100100101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 249 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
About this poem
Breakups are never easy, even when welcome, but ghosting is particularly cruel. I wrote this acrostic poem as a way to communicate the physical weight of that singular word: silence.
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