Analysis of Recurring Echoes of New Year's Love

Lani Kirby 2007 (south Australia)



Since we were kids, I've held this love so true,
When you began to like me back, my heart soared anew.
Yet your actions mystify, year after year,
New Year's arrives, we draw near.

Together we laugh, you indulge and flirt,
Confessing your love, my heart lifts from the dirt.
But morning brings clarity, sober and cold,
You vanish, like a story untold.

Why this cycle, I cannot comprehend,
Do you truly want me, or is it just pretend?
Do drunk words unveil thoughts concealed?                                                                            
Or is my love for you, still revealed?

Am I not enough for your heart's embrace,
Without the haze of alcohol's grace?
Do you desire more than what I am?
Do you long for me, or is that a sham?

Entangled in feelings, attached to your name,
You have a girlfriend, yet I'm not the same.
We both know the future, as New Year draws near,
She'll fade, you'll return, that much is clear.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIBB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1101111111 1101111111101 1110101101 1101111 0101110101 01011111101 11011001001 110101001 111011001 111011111101 11101101 111111101 1110111101 0101111 1101011111 1111111101 01001001111 110111101 11101011111 111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 935
Words 182
Sentences 12
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 130
Words per stanza (avg) 32

About this poem

this poem is about a childhood friend of mine who's very confusing about his feelings towards me.

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Written on August 19, 2023

Submitted by lanik3905 on August 23, 2023

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Lani Kirby

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