Analysis of And The Angels Cried

Susan Carmichael 1955 (Cleveland)



The Angels looked down from above,
watching her as she sat in anxious silence.
Waiting, hoping, wondering if her lover would appear.
They felt the agonizing loneliness that consumed her.

They listened, as she silently prayed for the screen to bring forth her as yet unseen admirer.
She yearned to read those words.
Words that had the power to tenderly caress her body,
like the soft gentle hands of a lover.

They understood her need for him.
She thirsted for, and was quenched by his impassioned prose.
Each line setting fire to her senses.
She was hopelessly lost inside a fantasy.
Slowly she reached out, softly touching the screen.

They knew her lover would not be coming.
Never again would he ravish her body with unseen hands.
Once more the jilted lover, once more unloved.
Alone she sat in bitter silence, weeping.
And the Angles cried.


Scheme XXXA AXBA XXXBX CXXCX
Poetic Form
Metre 01011101 10011101010 10101001010101 11010001001010 11011100110111101101010 111111 111010110001010 1011011010 1010111 111011110101 1110101010 111001010100 10111101001 1101011110 10011110101011 11010101101 01110101010 00101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 845
Words 166
Sentences 16
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 5
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 168
Words per stanza (avg) 37

About this poem

Divorced and lonely, I was seduced by a man through e-mails. This is when the internet was new to me. I was a babe in the woods...so naive!

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