Analysis of It's Never Quite Right



It's never quite right.

We search and we search,
for love that will complete us,
for meaning and purpose,
in a world that seems to suffocate.

We fall in love with the wrong people,
we chase after fleeting illusions,
and in the end, we are left empty,
a shell of who we once were.

We die a little each day,
with each missed opportunity,
with each dream left unfulfilled,
with each love that slips away.

And still we live,
hoping for something more,
reaching for the stars,
even as the darkness closes in.

We try to make sense of it all,
to find meaning in the chaos,
to understand why we are here,
and what our purpose is.

Yet the answers elude us,
and the more we search,
the more lost we become,
in a world that is never quite right.

But still we live,
we love, we die,
and we keep searching,
even as we know,
that it's not quite right,
never quite right,
this life we live,
one after the other,
piled there as history,
the waste of the species,
the crushing of the light.


Scheme A BCCX XXDE FDXF GXXX XXXX CBXA GXXXAAGEDXA
Poetic Form
Metre 11011 11011 1111011 110010 00111110 110110110 111010010 000111110 0111110 1101011 1110100 111101 1111101 0111 101101 10101 101010100 11111111 11100010 1011111 0110101 1010011 00111 011101 001111011 1111 1111 01110 10111 11111 1011 1111 110010 111100 011010 010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 980
Words 229
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 11
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Written on May 17, 2023

Submitted by JoeStrickland on May 17, 2023

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Joe Strickland

I'm just a regular, blue collar, working stiff who took an interest in writing poetry many years ago but until recently I haven't had a desire to share any with anyone or pursue publication. I'm an unpublished fork lift operator by night, and a day drinker by choice. I can be followed on Twitter @JoeStricklandSC more…

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