Analysis of Gone Without A Trace



Just the other night, I was thinking of you.
Thinking of how I was in love with you.
How you said you loved me too.
Forever, together we'd be.

Now it's just a memory past.
Oh, how I wished it would last.
Being with you, holding you,
Kissing you, your touch.

I miss how you made me laugh
And the way you said goodnight.
Even the occasional visits we shared,
And the pettiest little fights.

I wish you were here right now
To see the expression on my face,
From when we used to share this love
That is now gone without a trace.


Scheme AAAX BBAX XXXX XCXC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 10101111011 1011110111 1111111 01001011 11101001 1111111 1011101 10111 1111111 001111 10001001011 001101 1110111 110010111 11111111 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 527
Words 119
Sentences 10
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 26

About this poem

I wrote this poem in my younger years after my first love. We were still friends, but I still had feelings that would weigh me down.

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Written on December 01, 2007

Submitted by megsmarshmallow on April 18, 2023

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Joshua Souza

I grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia and spent most of my time babysitting as the eldest of 4 at the time. Now I have traveled the world thanks to my military profession and will start to write again in my free time. more…

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