Analysis of Longing for a life
Mattie Wurzburg 2007 (Athens, GA)
The clock strikes 12:00 and everyone screams
She hears booms of fireworks and the yells of celebrating people
She hugs her mom and dad
She feels happy that 2020 is over, if only for a minute because she knows this changes nothing
The music rings in her ears “Were all just broken people”
She knows there is a whole world out there waiting for her, but she still sits
She feels the tear run down her face, her stomach clenches and she lets go
She knows who she is, what she wants and how she feels
Her parents know and the ignored
They think I am leading them on? She loves them and would never. Our love shouldn’t feel like a crime
I am gay, mom, wether you accept that or not
The emptiness claws at her like a hungry tiger and she longs for human interaction
Her family isn’t cutting it anymore
She should be discovering herself and what makes her tick, but still...she is at home, watching TV
She feels like a hostage in her own home
She feels like a shell of a person without her person
She misses them and the way they look at her and the laughs they had together and how when they smile, the room lights up and how happy they make her-
She feels like nothing without them because facetime is nothing
She looks her mother with longing and a touch of hatred
How could she take away her only outreach to the world?
How could she take away her freedom, her friends, her life…
The rain pounds on the roof, the trees, the ground
This is not how she wants to spend her New Years day
She tries to think of the positives but she can’t find any
Its like the world is mocking her
She said those words
“I love you too”
She should have said them after a walk in the park or a night of fireworks and celebrating the new year
Insted, she say them in a text
They still mean the same, but not really
She feels longing for her old life
She feels like she should be having her first kiss
Her first love next to her
Her life back-
She longs for her life and even though 2020 is over, she knows she won’t get it back for what feels like forever
| Scheme | XAXB AXX XXXX CXDX CEB XXF XXDE XXXXD FXEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110101 11111001110010 110101 111011101101010011111010 01010010111010 11110111110101111 11011101010100111 111111110111 01010001 11111011111011010111101 11111101111 0100110101010011110010 0100110101 11101000101101111111011 1110100011 11101101001010 11010011110001110100111101110110110 11110011011110 11010110001110 1111010101101 1111010100101 0111010101 111111110111 111110100111110 11011100 1111 1111 111111001001101110100011 1111001 111011110 11101011 11111110011 011110 011 11101010111011111111111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 2,019 |
| Words | 400 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 35 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on January 01, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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