Analysis of Nostalgia
samantha castello 1989 (Downer’s Grove, illinois)
This world is of a haze
It was
It still is
Here, laws of physics may be bent and broken
They have no dominion in this place
Here I am;
Pulled, stretched and torn to pieces,
Scattered into the twisting fog, winding winds
Insides melting asunder
Slick and sliding down my navel
Deeper still, until I’m encapsulated
It’s a sick feeling
The fear swells, my heart breaks
The salt of a tear shed and intense apathy
Bear the trace of a past life unparalled.
It’s revoked, it’s still and yet violent in the abyss
Of it’s creator.
Its suffocating; Biding its time.
I feel it edging closer to my body,
Sliding its finger tips upward,
Intertwining with my soul.
Tightening the fractals until I have nothing left
But there is no abscond
This is the air I breathe
I cannot leave
I wouldn’t want to.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 11 111 11110111010 111010011 111 1101110 10010101101 0110010 10101110 1010110100 10110 011111 011011001100 10110111 10111011000001 11010 11001011 11110101110 10110110 100111 100010111101 111101 110111 1101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 799 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 25, 1 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 310 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
About this poem
The sickly sweet feeling of being haunted by the past.
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