Analysis of Stick insects and trains.



Tomorrow is yours.
An inconvenience store.

I’m in a pub with tears in my eyes,
beer in my stomach,
and pork scratchings in my teeth
(those unconventional communion wafers), and my breath is oh so,
oh so,
OH
so slow.

A moment’s reprieve.

This gut-wrench never seems to subside,
and the creeping changes every time,
but the feeling never wanes -
a seed always survives.

Unknown moments of what you would say
if you could see me now -
would you be shamed,
would you be proud?

I miss you.

To the core.

A seance of “see you once more”
until the next time.


Scheme XA XXXBBBB X XCXX XXXX X A AC
Poetic Form
Metre 0111 10101 100111011 10110 011011 1010001010011111 11 1 11 01001 111101101 0010101001 1010101 01101 011011111 111111 1111 1111 111 101 01011111 01011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 609
Words 139
Sentences 12
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 7, 1, 4, 4, 1, 1, 2
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 13

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A eulogy.

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Written on November 06, 2023

Submitted by Sleekwood on May 03, 2024

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