Analysis of Not Three Days
Often times I've come to find
I'm standing right back where I started.
Hard to find the strength of will to start all over yet again.
Broken hearted, lost, confused,
It's time I pack my things and go though last I knew it I had just departed...
not three days ago.
Which way to go?
What road to take?
The path I pick will make or break me.
No way to know
It is too late.
For Heaven's sake please take me...
Far and lost from here.
Across the pond perhaps in Aust near Gloucester, in England.
Find a bar to sit and drink in.
Drown my thoughts instead of think them and then pay my tab and go. Much better this cost, it's just half the cost of my thoughts constantly accosting me..
Exactly where is my wallet?
While searching,
for it, my keys, and phone
I stop to look around...
and when I do I find I'm standing right back where I started, left my wallet, keys, and phone right here, when last I departed...
Not three days ago.
Scheme | xaxxaB bxcbxc xxxc x xxxaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111 110111110 111011111110101 1010101 1111110111111111010 11101 1111 1111 011111111 1111 1111 1101111 10111 01010101110010 10111010 11101111011110111011111011111000101 01011110 110 111101 111101 011111110111110111010111111010 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 912 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 4, 1, 5 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
About this poem
A look inward at myself and my struggles.
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Written on December 01, 2020
Submitted by paull.86328 on September 13, 2021
Modified on April 19, 2023
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