Analysis of tidal forces
Even in the sunlight this head
is aware of the night waiting
for her chance,
while the heart ever seeks
the invisible moon.
Tidal forces, cleaving,
pain rules from behind the silence,
by division.
From birth, stars map
their course, growing planets
placing me on the
event horizon,
trust the only particle
having escape velocity.
All those days I chose silence
and all I did, was helping noone −
trust the only word
that set me free.
Hang I did, above the chasm,
for trust was the bridge
I could not build.
Yesterday broke for a moment
and trust
sent me a star (lifelong) −
in the body,
heart casually beating,
the cold head put itself to rest
in your galaxy and finally answered
Scheme | XAX XB ACD XXX DXE CBFE XXX XXX EAXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1000111 10110110 101 101101 001001 10101 11101010 1010 1111 111010 10110 01010 1010100 10010100 1111110 01111101 10101 1111 11101010 11101 1111 1011010 01 110111 0010 1100010 01110111 01100010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
This poem was written in a period I was strugglinmg top keep my self out of depression and beginning to realize I had chosen wrong strategies for a long period of time. My wife has always stood by me (as I helped her fight the fight). The original poem is written in Dutch, which I translated into English myself.
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