Elegy For Jamie
So accomplished at the age of eight and twenty,
Young Jamie had the fortune and blessing of plenty
Though manifold her gifts and many her talents,
The complexities of her mind led to a world of imbalance
For heartily she believed in right and wrong,
And greyscale was never this songbird's song
She thought herself meek, a figure non-imposing,
Totally forgettable and rarely engrossing
But Jamie's mind existed in an alternate world,
And oh how others saw the genius and beauty of that girl
When she laid pen to paper she set words alight,
And with supersonic speed her writing career took flight
She grasped it not for her craft came from her soul,
A place she thought a flawed ocean of grief, a fraction of a whole
She was an empath supreme, a divine incarnation,
Of the absurdity of the world and its affectations
But there was more to our young Jamie, you see,
A gravitational magnetic propensity
For men to covet her and women to hate her,
But for Miss Jamie only words and novelty could sate her
Her auburn hair and hazel eyes men found so bewitching,
But it was for her body, mind and all of her they found themselves wishing
Yet despite all her insight, kindness, and compassion,
Pieces of herself she would greedily ration
Was she incapable of love with that titanium heart?
The tragic result of a world once blown apart
When her beloved sister drown in churning seas,
The future, for Jamie, was plagued with disease
And as betrayals around her were systematically unveiled,
She floundered, and in her own rough ocean, struggled and failed
Until one day some poison she ingested,
And all the work a waste in her life invested
And as she drifted into space and ceased to live,
She realized it was herself she could never forgive.
About this poem
It's about the failure to see our own talents, and the tragedy of depression.
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Written on March 27, 2022
Submitted by sircharlenesir on June 08, 2022
Modified on May 01, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AA BX CC DD XX EE FF GB AA HH CD GG II JJ KK LL XX |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,761 |
Words | 350 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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