Analysis of Ghost

amym.20819 1971 (Oklahoma City)



Do you ever hear of someone's  death
And wonder if you are next
Or see a funeral procession go by
And wonder if your next to die

Have you ever seen a Hertz
And wondered who
And if the next passenger will be you
View a graveyard all marble and stone
And know underneath is just skin and bone
The people weep
The crittters creep
Feasting upon the bodies deep

You think of life
The toil the strife
You think of your kids
And your loving wife

Do you still have time
To make this life divine
Or have you wasted it all
That’s such a crime

Before death comes for you
Can you still make all your dream come true?
Or in the end are you left a fool

Will it come quick
And unexpected surprise
Or will you have a slow suffering demise

Either way everyone dies

It will always be far too soon
It always is
Its always Doom

One day you wake
But dead you lay
And in the casket they put you away

He was so young
They will rage
Or will you live to a ripe old age

Your wife will cry
And wonder why
And you children will thank you
As they say goodbye

A life erase
He is in a better place
they will say
You helplessly  watch
As they pray

You hope you lived your life so well
You hope you are not on your way to hell

You wish to do it all over again
So much you would change
Its too late
It’s the end

Pastor preaches go to heaven now
But just then you realize you don’t know how

Lower into the groud
They all gather round
As the dirt thrown upon you
Silences Sound

You see the light
You run Away
And still are a ghost
To this very day.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11101111 0101111 11010001011 01011111 1110101 0101 0101100111 10111001 010111101 0101 011 10010101 1111 0101 11111 01101 11111 111101 1111011 1101 011111 111111111 100111101 1111 001001 11110110001 101101 1111111 111 111 1111 1111 0001011101 1111 111 111110111 1111 0101 0110111 1111 0101 1100101 111 11001 111 11111111 1111111111 1111111001 11111 111 101 101011101 1111101111 100101 11101 1011011 1001 1101 1101 01101 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,540
Words 336
Sentences 2
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 4, 8, 4, 4, 3, 3, 1, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4
Lines Amount 61
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 70
Words per stanza (avg) 19

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Life and death

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Written on April 18, 2023

Submitted by amym.20819 on May 14, 2023

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amym.20819

I grew up traveling the country as my mother ran truck stops. I learned so much about this country and all the different yet wonderful people. I am grateful each day and hope I make everyone's day brighter....yet I write dark stories and poems. more…

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