Analysis of Hundred Mile Hotel
Austin Anderson 2007 (Alabama)
They put me here
In this hell
Nothing to drink but old beer
In the hundred mile hotel
Hallways expand for miles on end
They never stop, they keep going on
No one is here, not a single friend
The ballroom plays a single song
It never stops, I can’t even turn it off
The paintings stare and stare and stare
The dust from the ceiling makes me cough
How did I get here, and the location of this place, where?
The books from the library are blank
Wordless, they remain
The creaks of the floor, the broken plank
I want to stop this eternal pain
I wish to die
I wish to move on, make it end
But no matter how much time goes by
To the heavens, I never ascend
In the hundred mile hotel
I hear voices, though nobody is there
Make it stop, make it stop!
To drown them out, I ring the bell
I ring until I feel my ears are about to pop
I am so lonely
Not a single soul in sight
Just me only
Then, using all my might
I go completely insane
And break the walls
There are more rooms, even more pain
The paintings, follow me does their eyeballs
I stumble to the kitchen and take a knife
As I slit my throat
To end my life
The pain must be over, I ride the death boat
I fall asleep, ending the pain
And then I woke up, to where I started again
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 011 1011111 0010101 1011111 110111101 111110101 0110101 11011110111 01010101 011010111 11111000101111 01101011 10101 011010101 111110101 1111 11111111 111011111 101011001 0010101 11101111 111111 11111101 1101111110111 11110 1010101 1110 110111 1101001 0101 11111011 010101111 11010100101 11111 1111 01111011011 11011001 011111111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,227 |
Words | 255 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 39 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 952 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 253 |
About this poem
This is a poem representing several phobias. Autophobia, the fear of being alone. Apeirophobia, the fear of infinity. Kenophobia, the fear of empty rooms.
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Written on February 22, 2022
Submitted by austin.anderson on February 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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