Analysis of Fragments



Last night
A friend ended my life
In two sentences
In one sentence
In a fragment

I wish I was more
But I am less

I am not willing
to be sad forever
Not this sad
Not forever
Sometimes
sadness
wins

Sadness more
Sadness less


Scheme XXXXX AB XCXCXXX AB
Poetic Form
Metre 11 011011 01100 0110 0010 11111 1111 11110 111010 111 1010 01 10 1 101 101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 241
Words 56
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 2, 7, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 11

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Sometimes beauty and sadness are intertwined.

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Written on February 28, 2023

Submitted by jpgannon27 on September 27, 2023

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jamie gannon

Jamie is a professor of writing and journalism with over twenty years teaching experience. She once came upon a beautiful, life-changing anthology, Against Forgetting. The anthology’s premise was simple: how to use poetry to confront personal, physical, and political trauma. Poems as civil disobedience; poetry as defiance. The following poems were born from that central tenet. Some poems would fit comfortably in the confessional vein of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Author is currently finishing her dissertation and dreaming of the Italian countryside. more…

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