Analysis of Knowing Me
It is all there
The thoughts of joy,
Reflections of past loves.
But do the young girls know,
Of the distance that life takes you.
They care for the body but not the soul
They talk and I’m there, in my wheelchair.
Thinking so many thoughts, they don’t see me
Stand right near me, but I’m not there to their eyes
I wonder what they will become, when they’re done here.
They don’t know I’m in here, seeing them do things
Knowing they don’t care for me, it’s a job they do,
A body they lift, as they talk among themselves.
Why am I here, and not there, on the outside
Laughing with the girls, being a presence.
I look at others and wonder is that me?
A flat face of flesh without emotion
With only eyes to show the soul
Within the lifeless vessel.
I look and know I am
Here inside that.
And I think,
Hello
Me.
Scheme | ABCDEFAGHIJEKLMGNFOPQRDG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 0111 010111 110111 10101111 1110101101 11011011 1011011111 11111111111 110111011111 11110110111 101111110111 010111110101 11110111011 1010110010 11110010111 0111101010 11011101 0101010 110111 1011 011 01 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 808 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 615 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 159 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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