Analysis of Etches
Crumpled youth
Disposed like a rejected note
Balled in anger and fisted in the wind
Retrieved as an after-thought
Rolled out and smoothed over
But the relentless spider veins of time
Permanently etched on this once flawless canvas
Tell a long tale of regret and resignation
No writer’s stroke can erase this history
It’s ink stains like an undiluted dye - its fixed
Stubborn folds
Like insistent memories
Blind to my affront
Lingering shamelessly and showing themselves
Boldly at the door of my tired mind
Taunting me with pictures of my fresh youth
To torment me with a lost past
As fleeting as a dream
Disrupted when only barely started
And leaving me to tell its end
Scheme | AXBXXXXXXX XXXXBAXXXX |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 101 01100101 1010010001 0111101 110110 1001010111 100011111010 10111010010 11011011100 11111010111 101 1010100 11101 10010001001 1010111101 1011101111 1111011 110101 0101101010 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 663 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 275 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
About this poem
The poem explores the emotions and thoughts accompanying the inevitable and indelible aging process.
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Written on June 25, 2021
Submitted by novdel02 on June 29, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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