Analysis of No Windows
Lock this ruined mind,
Behind this windowless sill of mine,
Let no words tell of this non-creation,
This now complete abomination.
Inside,
I’ll be.
Where nothing stabs to wet my face,
Pallor with listlessness and ache,
If only reattachment favoured one,
With a ragged, worn-out fate.
Better than this - surely,
They roam freely outside,
Are you there, outside my door,
Pacing with the wicked wind?
Turned about to let them pass again,
Unscathed outside my shadowed veil they wait,
Why must you call my name,
When, hidden from your likeness,
I shrink not to hear the shame you call my way?
Crawling ever further to where comfort lingers,
Waiting,
Welcoming but one.
No other here to trephinate,
Behind this windowless sill,
Ever still,
I’ll wait.
Scheme | AXBBCD XXBE DCXA XEXXX XXBAFFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 011100111 1111111010 11010010 01 11 11011111 11101 110111 1010111 101110 111011 1111111 1010101 101111101 0111110111 111111 1101110 11111011111 101010111010 10 10011 110111 0111001 101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 756 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
Finding shelter and comfort in solitude.
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Submitted by WitheringSurface on May 14, 2022
Modified by WitheringSurface on May 17, 2022
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