Analysis of Detour
Years on the journey,
Only to arrive at this.
The fire is no longer burning,
The stars were a reach and a miss.
My gun is full of notches,
And my mind is traumatized.
Memories are only blotches,
Of empty stares at the skies.
My future is obscured,
As the cars pass overhead.
My life has been detoured,
I would be better off dead.
Then one dark night,
When the reception was bad.
I thought maybe I might,
And a conception was had.
Continue aimlessly,
In this hell that I allowed.
Or ferociously fight,
For a life that is proud.
Hope my stomachs not queasy,
And I don’t have loose screws.
It will not be easy,
With only my life to lose.
Scheme | ABXB CXCX DEDE FGFG AHFH AIAI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11010 1010111 010111010 01001001 1111110 011110 10011010 1101101 110101 1011101 111110 1111011 1111 1001011 111011 0001011 010100 0111101 101001 101111 1110110 011111 111110 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
I often contemplate what the circumstances were that led a person to give up on life and end up on the street. Was it a series of bad decisions? Then there is the thought about what it would take to get life back after it had been abandoned.
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