Analysis of Standing Alone

Trisha Rayfield 1980 (Bellflower)



I stand all alone,
Winds bend at my knees
Throughout an orchard
Wrinkled ruffling leaves

Tossed my hair over
With great drops of rain
Twisted and turning
Numbed out of most pain

This sky has turned gray
Purple scatters the skies
Within all this darkness
The fire never despised

Puddles of mud
Lay down in the curves
I swear i have talked
With all of the birds

Standing alone
Sets my heart free
With thinking
I will never let go
Of grasping my key

I stand all alone
Prey to wolves when they come
Should i hustle the ground
Hurts to fear how fast i would run.

Should i hunt a bear
Would deer and elk run
If my spear was sharpened
They would never see sun

The daylight would break
Yet not one sound
I have never encountered
Upon this ground

To walk alone and stand on my feet
I would stand alone
As each heartache would beat.

Like the sound of a drum
Within the soft leather
A hunter's kept wood
A tribes kept a feather

With one or two
Each bird call from sky
Soars rythyms of warnings
Rippling into my cry.

Unbearably cold crushed snow at my feet
I left home to camp turned into my fleet.

I will never forget I was never standing alone
That  bear tracks i followed lead me home.


Scheme Axbx cded xxxx xxxx afexf Aghi xixi xhbh jaj gcxc xkxk jj ax
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 11111 01110 101001 11110 11111 10010 11111 11111 10101 011110 0101001 1011 11001 11111 11101 1001 1111 110 111011 11011 11101 111111 111001 11111111 11101 11011 111110 111011 0111 1111 1110010 0111 110101111 11101 11111 101101 010110 01011 011010 1111 11111 11110 1000111 0100111111 1111110111 11100111101001 111110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,194
Words 251
Sentences 6
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 2
Lines Amount 48
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 18

About this poem

This poem is about being alone.

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Written on December 29, 2021

Submitted by PixieLove24 on December 29, 2021

Modified by PixieLove24 on December 29, 2021

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