Analysis of A Reflect at Midnight - What did I do wrong?
You graced my life
for a brief moment
like a dew drop landing on a leaf,
before sliding off
into oblivion.
Your residue,
that soft fragment of connection,
remained like a sinew-thin moon outline,
etched across a darkening sky,
until morning’s light took you away.
With the passing of time
comes the dawning of sadness
that persists in the memory of time shared,
but now too is lost in life’s annals,
never to flow my way again.
Life’s currents
spark brief interludes of hope,
but which fade too,
too quickly,
into the stream of ether
as thought’s molecules absorb all traces,
leaving nothing.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 10110 101110101 01101 010100 110 11101010 01101111 10101001 011011101 101011 1010110 10100100111 111110110 10111101 110 111011 1111 110 0101110 111001110 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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My friend came, shared time and wine and then left.
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