Waste



To think that i Loved

Only to See
That It ends
Bitterly

Just to Feel
What it feels like
Unrequitedly

i Heard
Voices tell me
Eloquently

That it was worth the Waste

About this poem

“Waste” is about both the beauty and the unpleasantness of one-sided love. Therefore, this poem can be taken in a positive or negative matter

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Written on September 07, 2022

Submitted by unorthodoxpoetri on September 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X AXA BXB XAA X
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 172
Words 42
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 3, 1

Ashleigh van der Walt

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