Analysis of No More and No Less



I look at the stars
And think,
I once existed in you,
part of your creation of a world
that included those stars
and me,
and your memories of me,
Just as I thought of you,
and created you,
and still do
even though you are here no more
and one day I will not be here either
And so it is
with everything.
Here and not here, remembered and then ``not.
And the day will come
when all that I am, like all that you were,
will no longer be so much as
a memory in anyone’s head.
Which might seem sad,
but I ask,
Sad to whom?
No more sad than I/it was once
beautiful
Lasting no more
and no less
than everything else.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11101 01 1101001 111010101 101011 01 0110011 111111 00101 011 10111111 0111111110 0111 110 1011010011 00111 1111111110 11101111 0100011 1111 111 111 11111111 100 1011 011 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 618
Words 143
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 27
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 464
Words per stanza (avg) 126

About this poem

A simple, spontaneous poem about loss and love.

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Written on April 13, 2022

Submitted by jmrogers_46205 on April 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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John Rogers

College English major, lawyer for 42 years, and a rank amateur poet with time on his hands. more…

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