Analysis of Forgotten Ghosts
As I watched corruption erode the souls of those, I once considered pure
Tears of ice fell down the cheeks of one who could not see his face in the mirror.
Pain etched across furrowed brows.
Overwhelming misery as tangible as dry leaves in a closed fist
Symbolizing the time that slipped through my fingers like sand in life's hourglass.
I stood an empty vessel.
Memories better left forgotten.
Weighing me down as if 1,000 anchors were tied to weary ankles that walked a lonely road.
To tired to walk another million miles.
God wept and Satan smiled.
As everything I loved turned to ash
Heart broken.
As if made of glass thrown from 30 stories high.
Where clouds cried acid rain
And the wind moaned as if mourning the ghosts drifting in the wind slowly fading away into nothingness
Slowly like clouds trapped in the golden crimson skies of sunsets
What was lost can never be found again
And so here I lay
Alone
Devoid of happiness
Living a life defined by pain and torment
What is happiness? I whispered to the wind
Tormented to live out an eternity
Where the ghosts of forgotten memories will forever haunt me.
Trapped in an never ending cycle of torment
Forever alone forgotten like tombstones in an abandoned graveyard.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010010111110101 1111101111111110010 1101101 01010011001110011 10001111110110110 1111010 100101010 101111100111010110101 11011010101 110101 11011111 110 1111111101 111101 00111110011000110100101100 10111001010111 1111101101 01111 01 011100 1001011101 11100110101 1011110100 1011010100101011 10110101011 0100101011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,231 |
Words | 232 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 991 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 217 |
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A reflective poem about loss
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