Analysis of Signs, Beckoning Signs
Charlene Delfin 1990 (Mandaluyong City)
Unending and bleak darkness.
Curtained by lines of raindrops.
Glistening, directionless.
It never ends, never stops.
Building huge walls of nothing.
Absolute nothing screaming
'Til I'm deaf, blind and mute.
All dreams were sucked by the chute.
Illusions are like pauses
In between the raging storms,
Moving me between places.
To be a clown or a worm,
As long as I keep moving.
There, along the road, beckoning.
Maybe they're illusions, too.
They wanna be listened to.
"Through here, you'll find a flower,
Rich and alive with color,
Casting forth its scent and more."
And so I listened to these,
Taking a different road.
Finding green grass, plants, and trees.
Up that steep road, I rode
Moving under clear, blue skies.
Past the cows and fields of rice.
Birds that fly in a line
In the warm, golden sunshine.
Scheme | ABABCCDD EXEXCCFF GGX HIHIXXJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110 11111 1000100 1101101 1011110 101010 111101 1101101 0101110 0010101 1010110 1101101 1111110 10101100 1010101 1101101 1111010 1001110 1011101 0111011 1001001 1011101 111111 1010111 1010111 111001 001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 791 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 3, 8 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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