Analysis of Arrows



Arrows from bright, unbroken skies
are falling down into the eyes
of a man who is searching, yearning to find
fantastical vistas inside his mind.

The warming rays illuminate for him
branching paths from which to choose again–
one that's been taken, one yet to be tread,
both bursting with wonders inside of his head.

This time his inspiration can be found
in gentle giants rooted deep in the ground;
how they sway and creak and seem to speak
to all those venturing outside to seek
a piece of peace amidst their stoic presence
or words of wisdom in their silent essence.

For some small creatures, they can be a stage
on which to sing or dance or at times engage
with the birds and the bees in a compilation,
played in a theater with living foundations.

More wonders walk under that green ceiling
seeking cover to avoid revealing
themselves to anything from the world outside,
wary of the dangers when worlds collide.

These are the stewards of this grand old hall
where, when no one’s watching, silent things fall
to the ground, decay, and become the soil
that all things need and in which men toil.

Yet these men who venture out to work and play
within this world–this great green bouquet–
struggle to stop for and much less to smell
the wonders, like roses, wherever they dwell;
wonders like giants growing so tall and so green
that they create, in morning sun, a scene
of arrows from bright, unbroken skies,
falling down into my eyes.


Scheme AABB XXCC DDEEFF GGXX HHII JJKK LLMMNNAA
Poetic Form
Metre 10110101 11010101 10111101011 1100111 0101010011 101111101 1111011111 11011001111 111010111 01010101001 111010111 1111001111 01110111010 11110011010 1111011101 11111111101 10100100010 100100110010 1101101110 1010101010 0111010111 1010101101 1101011111 1111101011 1010100101 111100111 11111011101 011111101 1011101111 01011001011 101101011011 1101010101 110110101 1010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,458
Words 277
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 4, 8
Lines Amount 34
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 37

About this poem

This is a poem I wrote one morning while sitting out in the woods and seeing the light breaking through the canopy in a most inspiringly transcendent fashion. One I have never seen the like of since.

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Submitted by thoughtsFromB4 on March 14, 2024

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