Analysis of The Road North
THE ROAD NORTH
I’ve not been here before and won’t stay.
The track winds north through the mountains
and I want to press on in the sunshine.
Not sure where I’ll stay, doesn’t much matter
as at last I’m beginning to see
patches of snow round the peaks.
From the middle of a lake, beyond reeds
a score of geese rise together,
their wing beats and throaty exhalations
like gunshots amplifying the silence.
No, that’s wrong! ‘Nothing can come of nothing’.
It’s the startle of sound within silence.
I suppose I’d been thinking of our quarrel,
how estrangement can grow unheeded:
signs of distress discounted,
endearments seldom spoken, rarely felt.
The unsaid, its silent amplification,
the road north.
Scheme | A xbxcxx xcbdxd xeexxA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 111101011 01111010 011111001 111111110 111101011 1011101 1010101011 01111010 1110101 11100010 1111011110 1010110110 101111011010 101011010 110110 11010101 0011100010 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 721 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
Written some years later and remembering a drive to Scotland after serious tensions in a relationship.
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Written on September 12, 2022
Submitted by david.cook34 on February 20, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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