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
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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Submitted by charlenedelfin on April 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charlene Delfin

Charlene Delfin is a Filipina poet and author who is a frequent participant of the annual Global Poetry Writing Month (GloPoWriMo). more…

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