Analysis of Ghosted
Michelle Hoffman 1980 (Chattanooga, TN)
When I was looking for nothing
you appeared, opaque
then less so
and now clear
- a ghost -
Hand to my ear,
you quieted to a whisper
and then a tickle;
A single hair grazing my shoulder
and falling to the ground
to be later swept into the trash
I guess I got what I was looking for
| Scheme | XXXXX XAXAXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110110 10101 111 011 01 1111 11001010 01010 010110110 010101 111010101 1111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
This is about modern dating and the disappointment that comes along with being ghosted.
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