Analysis of Half Past Twelve



It’s half past 12,
an eerie silence,

far too quiet down here,
But for a familiar echo within

through the cages of my ribs,
it thunders on my heart,
clutches my veins

it’s just pain. pain. pain.

not a spec of light,
too dark down here

can see an image,
a flash before my eyes

stuck in a time frame,
movie that has no end

it’s just pain pain pain.

surface not far from here,
extend my hand, could almost reach

someone’s calling out to me
here, I scream-scream and scream

(pause)
suddenly-the clock rewinds,

the movie starts,
it’s an eerie silence

the surface far from here
it’s too dark down here

Oh.
it's half past 12, again.


Scheme xa bx xxx C xb xx xx C bx xx xa xa bb xx
Poetic Form
Metre 111 11010 111011 1100101001 1010111 110111 1011 11111 10111 1111 11110 010111 10011 101111 11111 101111 0111111 110111 111101 1 100011 0101 111010 010111 11111 1 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 653
Words 147
Sentences 6
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 8

About this poem

It’s about going through the same place again; the same emotions. The hopelessness and pain of not being able to get yourself out of that state of mind. When you try to convince yourself it’s okay, the clock goes backwards and you are back to that same feeling again.

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Written on September 28, 2021

Submitted by sadinthebox on August 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sadia Ejaz Qureshi

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