Analysis of Contemplation After Saying Goodbye



I watch the waves of the escalator,
sliding, flowing, down,
I am alone although I am in a sea of faces.
Sad strains of a piano concerto
come ugly and fuzzed overhead.
I can handle the world alone
but my mind doubts my heart;
foolish heart, you are lost
amid your own certainty,
amid your need to prove,
prove something the mind fears.
I fear you, sky
I fear your limits.
I wish I could wipe this hard look from my face
these wrinkles from my brow
and this turmoil from my body.
It is disturbing to acknowledge
that you look out from your eyes
and cannot see the world in its entirety
for you cannot see all of yourself.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOIPQIR
Poetic Form
Metre 110110100 10101 1101111001110 1110010010 11001101 11100101 111111 101111 0111100 011111 110011 1111 11110 11111111111 110111 0111110 110101010 1111111 010101010100 111011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 600
Words 120
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 485
Words per stanza (avg) 120
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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