Analysis of Old Man Sitting



The bones are brittle
as are the thoughts
they crumble
events of yesterdays that never happened
things that happened not remembered
today becomes another time
faces and events mingle
become a crazy quilt

He sits and stares
unaware of a spreading map
in his crotch that moves down
his legs and becomes a puddle
at his feet

His hands dangle at his sides
veiny gnarled
twitching
are they waiting for some message
from that dead brain
his pulse is almost an insult

They say he feels no pain


Scheme AXAXXXAX XXXAX XXXXBX B
Poetic Form Tetractys  (35%)
Metre 01110 1101 110 0111011010 11101010 01010101 1000110 010101 1101 0110101 011111 11001010 111 1110111 11 10 11101110 1111 1111101 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 467
Words 88
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 5, 6, 1
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by hitalot on November 05, 2017

Modified on March 27, 2023

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