Analysis of Light Dances on the Ceiling



Light dances on the ceiling
as remnants of a feeling
stay locked up in my mind
Despite what my belief means
there’s an ambiance that convenes
upon places only I can find
And still clinging to these thoughts
while wondering over lingering lots
of different space-times left behind
Those lights may shimmer and fade
but the shards of feeling don’t evade
incorporation into psyche newly aligned
(to illuminate a focus becoming refined)


Scheme AABCCBDEBFFBB
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010 1101010 111011 0111011 11100101 011010111 0110111 1100101001 110011101 1111001 101110101 001001101001 1010001001001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 436
Words 72
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 356
Words per stanza (avg) 72

About this poem

Since everyone seems to do it, I thought I’d try writing in the first person. This is nothing I wrote recently but I remember car headlights 'dancing' on my living room ceiling from the traffic always passing -as the traffic of my thoughts were also passing by.

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Submitted by JokerGem on September 20, 2023

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Jeffrey Powell

A bit of an introvert, Jeffrey enjoys arranging words and dabbling in poetic forms as an outlet for expressing his thoughts, feelings, and observations. He tends to play by his own rules and darts in and out of the civilized world, as avoiding the conventional gathering is more his style. Jeffrey lives with his fraternal twin whom he enjoys sharing a laugh with at the opportune time. more…

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