Analysis of Fortune



This poem is the cry of someone abandoned.
A wound so carved and deep,
That projected him into uninhabitable alleys,
but also elevated him to galaxies never explored;

Friends are his family, harbor, and oxygen.
Chaos is his fortune, destruction, and home.
Attention so non-existent that it became his fetish;

Twisted paths,
Faulty decisions,
In the hope of a benevolent future,
Coming from all the smiles once he snatched,
That, like stars, make him brighter.


Scheme XXXX XXX XXAXA
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111010 011101 10101010100010 110100111001001 111100100100 10111001001 010110101101110 101 10010 00110010010 101101111 1111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 463
Words 88
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 5
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

This poem is when I decided to leave the past behind and wear the scars proudly, also it was originally written in portuguese, which made extra challenging to capture ambiguity

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Written on September 03, 2022

Submitted by kserra on December 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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