Analysis of Dust to Dust



My life scattered amongst fiber pages of possessive paper
I no longer recognize myself.
A particle at sea
A beam of sunlight in the forest
A trunk of one tree
A slice of lumber. now a shaving of wood molded to this paper.
A page, a chapter, minutes of a life, I search for the beginning.
Ambition becomes submission but angels never surrender.
The mistral winds howl creating cause and effect.
An old woman drops her book, it flew with the wind, pages flung here and there. The most worn pages clung to me.
I am the pages, I am the book, I am the woman, I am the forest.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 560
Words 110
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 444
Words per stanza (avg) 110

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It hints of reincarnation

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Submitted by motherfucker1 on June 06, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Carol Orourke

I write in many mediums. Mostly screenplays some television and books. more…

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