Analysis of Woods
I walked into the woods of my mind
Through lush pines
Fresh air
Earth beneath my feet, healing me
Greenery invades me
Wild yellow lilies surround me
Their sweet smell fills me
I. Am. Happy.
Faintly someone asked me “where do you go?”
My mind returns
I’m back
I’m sitting in your kitchen
Having a cup of Joe
I reply “The happiest place I know”
Then I brought you there
Shared my secret place
Stripped my mind for you to see me bare
Come let me take you there
But
You
Cut down my trees
Destroy my evergreens
Set them on fire
Damn me to hell
Leave
Just go
So I can Mourn my desolate forest, alone
Do you think of me?
Gazing at what I loved most?
All I am now is but a woodland ghost
~L.E.
Scheme | XXABBBBB CXXXCC AXAA XXXXXXXCX BDDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101111 111 11 10111101 100011 11010011 11111 1110 101111111 1101 11 1100110 100111 1010100111 11111 11101 111111111 111111 1 1 1111 01110 11110 1111 1 11 111111001001 11111 1011111 111111011 0 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 721 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 4, 9, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem in the middle of a heartbreak, the woods were my happy place. I let one one person into them and now my happy place is filled with sadness
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