Analysis of Not Everything Is Forever

Cheyenne Seaman 2003 (Philadelphia)



Maybe I'm a little bit drunk tonight
Or maybe I'm just nostalgic, right?
Nothing has ever been black and white,
But once upon a time, you were my knight.

Two years, four years, six years ago:
We were young and didn't know
Where at all this life would go.
If on repeat, I don't know, would we take it slow?

Scrolling through messages at three fifteen
From where you and I were just eighteen.
Back when it was possible, just a young dream:
And though it's been two years, it's a lifetime, so it seems.

Spam emails and dirty video calls:
Work and college classes and life never stalled.
Feelings and love were gained and lost:
But never without, on the heart, forever a cost.

And tonight, of you, this poem I write
For every now and then a heart craves the light
The light of a love that was so young, true, and full of sight
Regardless of whether it was toxic, wrong, or right.

Miscommunications and anger fueled texts:
This world always pushing for what's to be found next.
But every now and then, our souls are like a river:
Reminiscing on what was never meant to be forever.


Scheme AAAA BBBB CCXX XXXX AAAA XXDD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 1010101101 110110101 101101101 1101011011 11111101 1010101 1111111 110111111111 111001101 111010101 11111001011 011111101111 1010101001 10101001101 10010101 1100110101001 0011111011 110010101101 01101111110111 0101101110111 1010101 11110111111 110010110111010 01011110111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,080
Words 223
Sentences 11
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Written on June 17, 2023

Submitted by RoseofVenus on June 17, 2023

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Cheyenne Seaman

Born in PA in 2003. Raised in NC. Love to read. Mother, first & foremost. Poet & Story Writer. Carpenter, Tutor, Babysitter, Sister, Daughter. more…

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