Analysis of Home has been burned down.

G.Q. James 1991 (Albany,NY)



You are a trigger for me,
When I'm around you I feel different,
Than when I'm not around you,
My world feels much different when I'm alone,
That energy we share doesn't feel good,
That pain is sharper than a blade,
The space just doesn't feel comfortable.

I don't feel at home but I feel homeless,
Being in a house ain't the same as being at home,
Our home has been burned down to ashes,
The flames burn sharply,
The ashes are burned to crisp,
Our lives haven't been the same.

You can't rebuild the house,
The house has been destroyed,
You can't even recognized things the same,
When you look at it things aren't what they use to be,
What's broken can't be fixed.


Scheme AXXXXXX XXXAXB XXBAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011 1101111100 1111011 11111001101 1100111011 11110101 0111011000 1111111110 1000110111011 1011111110 01110 0101111 10110101 110101 011101 111010101 1111111011111 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 647
Words 125
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 6, 5
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 169
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted on January 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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G.Q. James

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