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 |
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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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