Analysis of Fate
I was walking with my wife in the cool mountain air,
when all of a sudden, there she was.
A flash from the past.
My heart skipped a beat.
I squeezed my wife’s hand.
How I recognized her, I don’t know,
but it was her.
She was alone except for a child.
I was strangely relieved that she had someone.
Why should I care?
She broke my heart many years ago,
though only a page in the book of my life.
I’ve had many chapters in my book since then.
My loving wife picked me up from that time.
She helped put me back together again.
So I quickly turned my head away.
My mind returned to my current life.
I gave my wife’s hand another squeeze.
There is no future in the past.
Scheme | A X B X X C X X X A C D E X E X D X B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111001101 111010111 01101 11101 11111 11100111 1110 110101101 1110011111 1111 111110101 11001001111 11101001111 1101111111 1111101001 111011101 110111101 111110101 11110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
About this poem
I think I like this Free Verse stuff. I hope I'm as good at it as I think I am. This one was just a thought that popped into my head.
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Written on December 11, 2017
Submitted by UJ on August 02, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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