Analysis of Grief
In a box
In the attic of my brain
Lain amongst the others
Covered, now, in dust and cobwebs
And where I go to find you
is not inside of there
The weathered mat at the door
does not welcome me
The curtains hide the empty walls
Clock chimes against the silence,
telling nobody that the endless day goes on
Inside you have been washed away
the traces of you gone
Except the echo of your foot steps on the cold and faded floors
And in its air I smell you still
Hear your voice like distant chimes
set to the tune of the last time we said
goodbye
goodbye
You are gone but you are everywhere
The wings of birds
The leaves of trees
Water over stones
There is no stillness
Though darkness falls, this day is never over
The mat remains
across the threshold of your door
unaware of passing time
except collecting fall to winter
sun to rain
gentle breezes carry leaves
from her thin and tattered thread
singing softly as they go
goodbye
goodbye
Scheme | xaxxxb cxxxx xxx xxdEE b xxx x f xcxfaxdxEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (31%) |
Metre | 001 0010111 101010 1010101 0111111 110111 0101101 11101 01010101 1101010 1011010111 01111101 010111 0101011111010101 00111111 1111101 1101101111 1 1 11111110 0111 0111 10101 11110 11011111010 0101 0101111 011101 010101110 111 1010101 1010101 1010111 1 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 945 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 3, 5, 1, 3, 1, 1, 10 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
I wrote this right after my dads passing, after I cleaned and emptied his house
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