Analysis of Terra Ingognito
unfamiliar
unknown
ever looming,
threatening, constantly,
a dark silence lay in wait;
always I avoided it -
now, finally,
I listened.
It was no bogeyman
who lived
in that darkness,
there were no bear traps
hidden in the leaves −
nothing but the beginnings we shared −
I only had no eyes
to behold any light;
all light there was corrupted
when you chose
to let me
live the life.
Since I feel your presence close by,
since we met again in ways,
I hold that darkness in my arms,
and I mourn you now.
The darkness weighs me down less,
becomes
twilight before sunrise…
Scheme | XX XAX X AX XXXXX XBX XXAX X XX X XXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010 01 1010 100100 0110101 110101 1100 110 11110 11 0110 10111 10001 101001011 110111 101101 1111010 111 111 101 11111011 1110101 11110011 01111 0101111 01 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
A poem I wrote when I first realised I was a Womb Twin Survivor, written originally in Dutch and translated by myself into English in June 2020.
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