Analysis of Don’t look down on tomorrow

Regret 1948 (London)



A single plastic flower
at my door
death and remembrance
high above I look down
regretfully
at the tomorrow
I denied myself


Scheme ABCDEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 0101010 111 10010 101111 0100 1001 1011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 117
Words 22
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

Don’t check yourself out. You will regret it.

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Written on August 09, 2021

Submitted by stevetohari on August 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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