Analysis of Watching You
Watching You,
Watching me.
Smile gently with friends
watching you….watch me
watching you
Unsaid words leaped so often
momentarily through faint gestures and silences
The swinging doors close on parting every time.
So much still to be said
So much still to be heard.
One is taken.
The other left.
I know I will carry our silences
into the sea shores of my mind.
| Scheme | AbxbAcd xxx cx dx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 101 11011 10111 101 0111110 010011100100 010111101001 111111 111111 1110 0101 11111010100 01011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 350 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 3, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
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Written on 1986
Submitted by MVellani on September 06, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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