WISH YOU WERE HERE

I recall you the night we trought

You and I were together

Like prince and princes

Which holding each arm tighly

Dont you know, day by day I count

I have been here for a long time

Sitting in the silence

only waiting for your coming

since you were gone

the night become so silence

and when I look my hand, there is something lost

then I suddenly drenched with sadness

realizing space between my finger no yours that made it fit perfectly

then I tought the silence isn’t so bad as long as star still shining

cause they accomnpanied me every night in the porch while I looking them

I blink my eyes and think about you to cure my longing

I open my eyes but nothing happen

The last thing I can do only saying in my heart *oh darling I wish you were here*

SYMBOLS, IMAGERY AND WORDPLAY

i. You (someone)

You are an appropriate image in this poem. The speaker describe that she need someone

(you) by her side. But the fact, she only can imagine his shadow in her mind and without the

real situation. The speaker really need him to always stay by her side. She feel lonely without

him that usually use his hand to make her finger fit perfectly. She just look nothing, only a

black situation and darkness. In this poem tell that the speaker really miss someone (you) that

usually always be there for here. Their relationship get separated by the distance.

Line 2-3: the simile “You and I were together - Like prince and princes” the writer

use such a simile in this poem like prince and prince. She imagine like she was a

princes that the hand hold by a prince and both of prince and princes walk on the red

carpet together.

Line 5: in this line, the speaker lists a bunch of rhetorical questions: questions that

don't really require an answer. It makes sense, we guess, since she’s talking to an

objects that can't very well respond. But because they are just rhetorical, they sound

pretty accusatory, too, don't you think?. The speaker talk to someone who is really

close with her. Because the object unseen and the fact he is in the some place which is

cannot reached by the speaker, then this is just rhetorical.

Line 14: the speaker uses alliteration in line 14 such as “the silence isn’t so bad as

long as star still shining”. The speaker reapeat the word “s” in this line, that is why it

called as alliteration.

Line 6 and 8: the speaker uses the assonance the repetition of that long "o" vowel

sound ("for" "long," and "O") helps to slow the reader down. And in other line (“for”

“your”) also repetition the sound “O” vowel.

Line 8: the speaker uses conconance in this line. The repetition of final consonant

sounds, as in the words (“waiting” ”coming”)

Line 11: in the word (“when” “hand”) as same as in the line 8. We call it conconance

because there is s repetition of final consonant sounds. Also in line 16 as (“think”

“longing”), then in line 17 (“thing” “saying”)

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

i. Overstatement, or hyperbole, is simply exaggeration but exaggeration in the

service of truth. This poem is called as overstatement style of poem because the

poem express about the truth feeling and speaker express it more exaggerate.

This is what we call a hyperbola style of poem.

Line 5-8: the speaker uses a branch of hyperbola language style.

Dont you know, day by day I count

I have been here for a long time

Sitting in the silence

only waiting for your coming

In this line tell that the speaker is waiting for someone coming while sitting in the

dark situation. I mean she is waiting for someone with the dark feeling like empty and

nothing. She just wait and wait for him with sadness. Empty and nothing are indicate

that the speaker really missing the man who is far away.

Line 9-13: this line also consist of hyperbola. As same as the second stanza that the

speaker express her feeling excessively. In this line the speaker tell that without him

is like there is something lost of her. She feel like in the silence when the man she

loved very much is gone in the far area in the far place. This is what we call

hyperbola because the line of peotry is really express excessively.

SOUNDS

i. Rhytm and meter

Line 1-2: in these line, written in iambic trimeter (daDUM) with a total of three

stressed syllables both of first and second line.

Line 3-4: : line 3 is written in iambic dimeter (daDUM) with a total of two stressed

syllables. Line 4 is in iambic tetrameter (daDUM again) with a total of four stressed

syllables. 

Line 5-6: a headless iambic pentameter in line 5, which is just fancy (gruesome) talk

for an unstressed/stressed syllabic pattern that has a total of five stressed syllables in

each line. It's "headless" because it's missing that initial unstressed syllable in the

beginning of the line. So it goes a little something like this: DAdumDAdumDA. And

in another line 6 writen in iambic tetrameter (daDUM) with a total of four stressed

syllables.

Line 7-8: line 7 is written in iambic dimeter (daDUM) with a total of two stressed

syllables. Line 8 is in iambic tetrameter (daDUM again) with a total of four stressed

syllables.

Line 9-10: line 9 is written in iambic dimeter (daDUM) with a total of two stressed

syllables. Line 10 is in iambic trimeter (daDUM again) with a total of three stressed

syllables.

Line 11-12: line 11 is written in iambic hexameter (daDUM) with a total of six

stressed syllables. Line 12 is in iambic trimeter (daDUM again) with a total of three

stressed syllables.

Line 13 : line 13 is written in iambic hexameter (daDUM) with a total of six

stressed syllables.

Line 14-15: in these line, written in iambic pentameter (daDUM) with a total of five

stressed syllables both of 14 and 15 line.

Line 16-17: in these line, written in iambic trimeter (daDUM) with a total of three

stressed syllables both of 16 and 17 line.

Line 18 : line 18 is written in iambic heptameter (daDUM) with a total of seven

stressed syllables.

ii. Rhyme

I recall you the night we trought A

You and I were together B

Like prince and princes C

Which holding each arm tighly D

Dont you know? day by day I count X

I have been here for a long time A

Sitting in the silence B

only waiting for your coming C

since you were gone A

the night become so silence B

and when I look my hand, there is something lost C

then I suddenly drenched with sadness D

realizing space between my finger no yours that made it fit perfectly E

then I tought the silence isn’t so bad as long as star still shining A

cause they accomnpanied me every night in the porch while I looking them B

I blink my eyes and think about you to cure my longing A

I open my eyes but nothing happen C

The last thing I can do only saying in my heart *oh darling I wish you were here* D

this poem consist of four stanza. There are four lines of both first and second stanza

I recall you the night we trought A

You and I were together B First stanza = 4 lines

Like prince and princes C

Which holding each arm tighly D

Dont you know? day by day I count X

I have been here for a long time A Second stanza = 4 lines

Sitting in the silence B

only waiting for your coming C

the third and fourth stanza are consist of five lines

since you were gone A

the night become so silence B third stanza

and when I look my hand, there is something lost C 5 lines

then I suddenly drenched with sadness D

realizing space between my finger no yours that made it fit perfectly E

then I tought the silence isn’t so bad as long as star still shining A

cause they accomnpanied me every night in the porch while I looking them B

I blink my eyes and think about you to cure my longing A

I open my eyes but nothing happen C

The last thing I can do only saying in my heart *oh darling I wish you were here* D

The fourth stanza : 5 lines