Analysis of The Past



Situations in the present can bring to life ghosts of the past
Reasons for this upheaval I confess I haven't quite
grasped

Could be the time, could be the place, the people or even me
Could be chance, coincidence, fate or just inevitability
Could be a pair of nostalgic glasses shading my sights
Could be where the sun suspended glints it's light just right  

Whatever the variables that make up my melancholy memory
It lays out onto this world like a movie projecting
And I'm caught in a trance as the past plays on
To every sound, movement, touch, smell and conversation
All assembled to pull me by a leash down memory lane
Feeling a tear form that never saw the light of day


Scheme XAX BBXA BXXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 010001011111101 10110101011101 1 110111010101101 1110100111000100 11011010101011 1110101011111 10010001111100100 11110111010010 01100110111 1100110110010 101011110111001 1001111010111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 689
Words 136
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 6
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 181
Words per stanza (avg) 41

About this poem

I got into a relationship with a coworker. The relationship did not work out and now work is just a crime scene.

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Submitted by Risingwerdz on June 26, 2023

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Tim Strauss

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