Analysis of Home
Time passed and I am still here.
In a vacant home that is filled
with silence and fear.
Stagnant and buried beneath
an emotional mess.
Longing to escape this feeling
of death.
Deprived of light and some place
to breathe.
Wishing I could ignore all
the feelings and leave.
Let me go, allow me some hope.
To no longer be trapped
in a home falling of
a pretty steep
slope.
| Scheme | XXX XXXX XXXX AXXXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111 00101111 11001 1001001 101001 10101110 11 0111011 11 1011011 01001 11101111 111011 001101 0101 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 380 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem after the death of my grandmother. It’s about the overwhelm of being left behind and suffocated. It’s the longing to move on from a place that no longer feels right, but struggling to do so.
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Written on February 21, 2023
Submitted by toheerahleukes on March 02, 2023
Modified on April 28, 2023
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