Analysis of Haunting
Am I
to be
ghost
because I already died
or
because I hang on
…
live on past,
past that one moment
the old times froze,
past that one moment
creating, in passing,
Am I to haunt
this new house,
or am I
to move from room to room,
playing where nothing existed before…
I breathe
− onwards, beyond,
everlasting −
I do not sleep,
for this naked house
is magnificent
Scheme | axx xbx x Cx Cd xe axb xxd xec |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 11 1 0110101 1 01111 1 111 11110 0111 11110 010010 1111 111 111 111111 1011001001 11 1001 010 1111 11101 10100 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 372 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 5, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
This poem waas originally written In Dutch (my mothertongue) and read out on the funeral of my mother, who died (also liberated) five years ago from Alzheimer's disease.
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