Analysis of My Past Returns
A tamer version of myself,
I rise from day to day
Fit for consumption publicly,
in camouflage I play
Memories deep, and memories stored,
from oh so long ago
Now sleep inside my attic,
ephemeral they glow
My current frame of reference…
four always two plus two
The mundane I show deference,
to do what others do
But late at night I hear those sounds,
now coming down the hall
Remembrances to fill my dreams,
my treasure out of pawn
With sleep unchained, the night on fire,
I return to who I am
And pray that on tomorrow’s eve,
—my past will come again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB CD CD XX XX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011 111111 11010100 01011 100101001 111101 1101110 010011 11011100 11111 00111100 111101 11111111 110101 01001111 110111 11101110 1011111 0111011 111101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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