Analysis of In My Old Bedroom



I built a life in this room…Mom and Dad asleep downstairs…bathroom I used to share with my brother and sister…Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations in my brother’s old bedroom…feet hanging over the edge, green covers…will I sleep this night, or will the demons lure me in?...Better days I’ve seen…Staring into the night sky…drip, drip, drip, of the neighbors’ distant pool…thinking, praying, wondering where all the time has gone, and how we all grew up so quickly, and how much of life we’ve squandered, chasing lost dreams…in love with the past, cold to the unwelcome present…lost in a sea of pleasant memories…moon overhead, bright, beaming down…all is well with the world.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
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Characters 709
Words 110
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 535
Words per line (avg) 109
Letters per stanza (avg) 535
Words per stanza (avg) 109
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Submitted by jemanuelson on June 10, 2020

Modified on March 14, 2023

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