Analysis of Grasping For Straws



you have many personalities inside your head
 face full of lead but I'm still not dead
 I need love I need you I
 I am no more than a blade of grass
 no more than a shell
 cast out of the sea
 no more
 than a bird
 in migrant flight
 nor am I less
 than a star whose light
 penetrates infinity

yet last night
 When a half spent moon
 Lay on the bosom of heaven
 And day's heat pressed down
 The sides of mountain peaks
 To squeeze the desert floor,
 And all the world was weariness
 Which the stars wept to see,
 Boldly
 A desert songster
 Insolently free, joyously
 Lifted melody
 To the moon, and teasing a breeze
 Into cooling the night
 And drifting the yucca's perfume
 Bringing heart's ease to me


Scheme AAXXBCDXEXEC EXXXXDXCCDBCXEXC
Poetic Form
Metre 111001000111 111111111 1111111 111110111 11101 11101 11 101 0101 1111 10111 100100 111 10111 11010110 01111 011101 110101 01011100 101111 10 0101 111 10100 10101001 011001 0100101 101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 697
Words 136
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 16
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 275
Words per stanza (avg) 66
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Submitted by hitalot on August 07, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mario William Vitale

Mario William Vitale is a twentieth century poet. He has developed a style of free verse. Has written over one thousand poems. more…

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