Analysis of Stygian Voyager
Aayushi Patel 2003 (Rajkot)
The moon swam through the clouds, a white boat on a still black sea;
Broken bones adored its twisted mounds, Sailing in it just two solitary souls, me and thee,
Ornate pendulum did a sinister chime, Wandering the deserted wreckage alone in the midst of the night,
To search for that hadst gone lost so long in time but the coals of which still dost ignite;
Thousand nights encountered the sole search by this seeking gaze,
The treasure veiled from the prison of time by the eternity of one cryptic maze;
Just a lone sailor on that flying vessel shining bright betwixt the sea of mocking stars,
Omniscient witness of every tale bearing those Onyx scars;
O! But the day arrived when there were two sailors! when their gaze stopeth on one another, enfolded in the flames of that endless song,
To quench the wander of those restless pursuit of the other, for what was lost hath been found after the story so long!
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101110111 1010111011001111001101 0110010100110000101001001101 11111111101101111101 10101001111101 010110101110010011101 1011011101010101011101 0101011001101101 110101110110111111010100111101 11010111001101011111111001011 |
Characters | 909 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 73 |
Words per line (avg) | 16 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 728 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 164 |
About this poem
This is the story of a lone voyager who travelled across the night in the ship whose mounds were made of the twisted bones of the unnamed creatures. The chime of the grandfather clock sings the story of how since the beginning and end the Voyager has always been travelling. In search of something, that sailor doesn't know but it's the ardent anguish that drives him in this unending search. There are two dimensions that overlap and in both of them the boat exists and there's another lone sailor who sails underneath the shadow of moon. Both the sailors are trying to find the treasure, whose search has rendered them restless like a black snake in the desert. The sailor witnesses the most beautiful shooting star, whose colour could never be described, whose light could never be defined and then there is a shower of meteors across the sea of night and the boundary between both the dimensions becomes thin and there is the chime, he turn towards the sound of grandfather clock, but not the on more »
Written on August 10, 2020
Submitted by aayushiap8 on December 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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