Analysis of Something Inside Has Changed

Jeffrey Powell 1979 (Pittsburgh, PA)



Something inside has changed
everything now becomes
charged to the shift
An old, new face lying in wait -
Beckoned; in the limits of a scream
waning waste from former fuel
Pierced by the discovery that
safety does exist, in that obscure manifest
of indistinguishable reverie
resoundingly subsistent
and innately magnificent


Scheme ABCDEFGHIAJ
Poetic Form
Metre 100111 10101 1101 11111001 100010101 10111010 11001001 10101010110 1001000100 01001 00100100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 324
Words 52
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 269
Words per stanza (avg) 51

About this poem

A change in one's inner or outer life, welcomed or not, does not have to be bad.

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Jeffrey Powell

A bit of an introvert, Jeffrey enjoys arranging words and dabbling in poetic forms as an outlet for expressing his thoughts, feelings, and observations. He tends to play by his own rules and darts in and out of the civilized world, as avoiding the conventional gathering is more his style. Jeffrey lives with his fraternal twin whom he enjoys sharing a laugh with at the opportune time. more…

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