Analysis of airplaneflight
Swirling winter plains
Fly below mighty wings;
Wedded to the sky.
This sky swoons for my eyes,
The clouds are fettered to the earth,
But I have escaped.
I am no longer mothered by the air of the world, but set to fend for myself,
To find a residence in an alien landscape.
The rarity of a moment above
All my fellow men and women
Assigns a certain value to every action; mundane yet novel.
They cannot be mundane because they are no longer accomplished in a world.
Infinity travels sound and screams as if it heard a sound.
I hear the sound.
Did it merely travel round
To collide with its past self?
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMMMG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 101101 10101 111111 01110101 11101 111101101101111111 110100011001 0100101001 11101010 010101011001001110 1101010111110010001 010010101111101 1101 1110101 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
About this poem
I scribbled this poem two hours into an airplane flight to San Francisco, in a letter to my boyfriend. I felt it captured the essence of my fondness for flying. There is an anticipation associated with travel which is matched with a distance from everyone going about their daily tasks below which I am very fond of.
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Written on February 09, 2022
Submitted by abjb0505 on March 02, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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