Analysis of Closing Night
It’s closing night,
And we are getting ready
For the final show.
There’s a feeling of nostalgia in the air;
Heavy,
Painful.
The pain with her strong arms,
Pulling our hearts back to this very moment,
While the rest of our bodies move further and further away.
Now we sit in our dressing room,
And wear our cremes and clothes.
Wondering if this will be
The best part of our lives,
Or the part nothing else could live up to.
But one thing is for sure,
If we die tonight,
We go the right way.
It’s closing night.
Doesn’t matter that Tom’s uncle
Is fast asleep in the first row.
Or that Jeremy’s’ aunt is
Clapping at the wrong parts.
Because tonight is ours.
It’s closing night.
We are in the wings,
And we feel the lightness
Of flying onto stage.
It rushes by in a cacophony
Of colours and shapes.
It’s closing night.
We sit, soak it in.
“Who’s gonna do it”
You ask.
“I will .”
I answer
I stand with the weight like rocks in my pocket
Trying to convince me to sit back down.
Telling me
“Just stay a little longer.”
“Sit, have a cup of coffee.”
It’s warm here.
But I know if I sit back down I’ll never leave.
It’s the feeling,
Of closing your eyes in the morning,
Just resting them lightly,
Heavy eyelids begging to be rested
But I must resist.
I walk up to the door.
And lock it.
One final glance
A hard stop, a soul crushing end.
And as I look around at all of you,
I wonder if I will remember you.
Or will I pass you by on the street,
Like a stranger.
Like all of this didn’t just happen.
It’s closing night.
What are we going to do next?
I place a gentle kiss on the ground.
While walking away with whatever stride I have left
In my step.
I close my eyes
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 0111010 10101 10101010001 10 10 011011 101011111010 1011101011001001 111010101 0110101 1001111 0111101 1011011111 111111 11101 11011 1101 1101110 11010011 11111 101011 0101110 1101 11001 011010 110101 1101000100 1101 1101 11110 11011 11 11 110 11101110110 1010111111 101 1101010 1101110 111 111111111101 1010 110110010 110110 101101110 11101 111101 011 1101 01101101 0111011111 1101110101 111111101 1010 11111110 1101 11110111 110101101 110011101111 011 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,731 |
Words | 387 |
Sentences | 34 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 8, 1, 5, 1, 5, 1, 17, 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 62 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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