Analysis of ESSENCE OF TRACES
ESSENCE OF TRACES
There is no beginning;
There is no end;
Only the essence of traces.
Each day is a page;
By night that will fall;
From the very beginning;
To the end for us all.
From out of the darkness;
And into the light;
Colors and odors and sounds what a fright.
Dreams turn to memories with time they emerge.
Ever changing stories begin to surge.
We then try to determine; What was real, what was not.
The truth is evasive, illusive, like fog.
Alone at the end;
The mystery unsolved;
Our bodies then leave us;
And the infinite returns.
Scheme | ABCADEBEFGGHHIJCKFL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110 111010 1111 10010110 11101 11111 1010010 101111 111010 00101 1001001101 11110011101 1010100111 1111010111111 01101001011 01101 010001 1010111 0010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 419 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 149 |
About this poem
I CREATED IT. IT IS WHAT LIFE IS.
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Written on September 01, 2021
Submitted by elizabethhertz on September 01, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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