Analysis of Echoes Of An Abandoned Poem
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
The mind is a dark theatre of vanished scenes,
Where the words remain among the ruins.
Words like ghosts, wandering, searching
For their bodies, for their relevance.
In the shadows, half-crafted emotions linger,
Abandoned fragments of an unfinished play.
The stage is empty, the actors silent,
Their dreams shrouded in forgotten graves.
We dwell in the stillness of what could have been,
Infinite possibilities left untapped.
Whispers of lost conversations haunt our thoughts,
Echoing through the corridors of time.
The world moves on, relentless in its march,
And we are left behind, holding onto fading lines.
Each passing day, another verse fades away,
Like echoes in a vast, empty hall.
The poet's pen lies dormant, gathering dust,
Its ink dried up, its pages worn and faded.
Yet still, the memories linger, like ghosts,
In the silent depths of our fractured souls.
And so we wander through this abode of words,
Chasing after fragments of forgotten thoughts.
In the shadows, we seek peace, find peace,
In the dropped lines of a forsaken poem.
Scheme | XXXX XAXX XXBX XXAX XXXX XBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011001101 1010101010 11110010 111011100 00111001010 01010110101 0111001010 111000101 11001011111 1000100101 10110101101 1001010011 0111010011 0111011010101 11010101101 110001101 01011101001 11111101010 1101001011 00101110101 01110110111 10101010101 00111111 00111001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,055 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Written on June 30, 2023
Submitted by JoeStrickland on June 30, 2023
Modified by JoeStrickland on July 24, 2023
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