Analysis of 7 Years



It's been 7 years
7 years since I last remember what it felt like to be consumed with love

Words that meant nothing to you
Meant the whole world to me
You saw me
In a time where i so desperately needed to be seen

I was in one of the lowest points of my life
You saved me

We drifted
You grew up
Became someone else
yet my feelings never faded

Strangers to friends
Friends to strangers
This unrequited feeling never leaving me

It's now been years since we last spoke
Years since my eyes last looked into yours
I hear your name and wonder "what if"

What if i had told him how i felt
What if i had made a better attempt to remain friends
What if i had done something, anything to keep you in my life

I will forever live with this pain
Knowing that at one point it wasn't unrequited
That you had felt the same
That will be my biggest regret

I wish you happiness in life
I really do
Id be lying if I didn't say, that Im longing for it to be with me

It's been 7 years since Ive last seen you
and somehow you have set up a permanent campsite in my brain


Scheme XX ABBX CB DXXD EXB XXX XEC FXXX CAB AF
Poetic Form Tetractys  (43%)
Etheree  (37%)
Metre 111 11110101111110111 1111011 101111 111 001111100010111 110110101111 111 110 111 0111 11101010 1011 1110 10101010101 11111111 111111011 111101011 111111111 11111010011011 111111010111011 110101111 101111110010 111101 11111001 11110001 1101 1110111011110111111 11111111 01111101001011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,053
Words 215
Sentences 2
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 2, 4, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 2
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 21

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A poem about unrequited love

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Written on September 15, 2021

Submitted by anonymouspoet202 on October 02, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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