Analysis of City Sounds
Here.
Near.
Close.
Far.
Into the night, how far id drive
Away from the lights
Camera.
Action.
Away from the sounds of shuffling feet
It’s hard to meet
The ends of the street
with out stopping
Now I’d be wrong to say the city never sleeps
But
I see things,
Things I’m not happy about
And oh how they make me want to shout
But I’ll scream to the top of my lungs
Cheeks red and I could full on plunge
To the ground
But the city sounds
Warp around
The little things
Things that make us human
A call on the phone
Or the hissing of a drone
Is heard by one and not by many
Here.
Near.
Close.
Far.
I cannot look up to the stars
The buildings take up the space
Space to breathe
Space to live
Spaces to be human is all but filled
By the city sounds
When no one is around,
How will the city sound?
Scheme | ABCDexxfgggx xxhii xxjkjh fllx ABCDx x xexkjj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1 1 1 01011111 01101 100 10 011011101 1111 01101 1110 111111010101 1 111 1111001 011111111 111101111 11011111 101 10101 101 0101 111110 01101 1010101 111101110 1 1 1 1 11011101 0101101 111 111 1011101111 10101 111101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 806 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 5, 6, 4, 5, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
This poem is something I wrote about living in the city. It gets draining very often with everything and everyone buzzing around like hapless bumblebees. No matter where I go in the city everyone is so consumed with the media and materialistic things, but in the end; how will the city sound when there is no one left around?
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