Analysis of Patiently Waiting for Silence
Patiently waiting for silence
I patiently wait for silence
For bodies to stop moving
For air to enclose within itself
I wait until it's over
I get up and wash off the noise because its too loud on my body
I scrub each moan and lie off of my skin
And they go down the drain with the rest of the noise.
I patiently wait for silence after “Are you sure”
I’m not but I can’t beckon the words
I can’t reject because I know how it feels
So I lie back and welcome the noise
And continue to wait for silence
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010110 11001110 1101110 111010101 1101110 11101101011111110 1111011111 011101101101 1100111010111 111111001 11010111111 111101001 001011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 513 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 12 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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