Analysis of Moment – Part 1



What has the moment done,
To teach us the past?
You could not be, nor I neither,
What we were in our past,
which could not last.

Heart-broken we are left now,
We who were never seeking each other,
 Nor each of us were selfish,
In hope of being loved by another.

Individually, both of us were seeking
Our own excuses just to keep on living.
Knowing our pains are for us  alone,
Not for sharing with any,
nor forgiving.

Was not it just an accident?
That it all had to be
What both of us have never
Wished it ever to be.

Wherever both of us were heading,
Happy in our sadness and going alone,
We had no knowledge of  each  other,
Nor worried about enduring for so long.

So, I was by-passing in my own way,
Grasping what was seen as my given chance.
How could we have ever known
That sad-you were to meet me by chance.


Scheme XABAA XBXB CCDEC XEBE CDBX XFDF
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 11101 11111110 1100101 1111 1101111 1101010110 1111010 0111011010 01000111010 101010111110 1010111101 1110110 1010 11111100 111111 1111110 111011 010111010 100101001001 111101110 11001010111 1111100111 1011111101 1111101 111011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 801
Words 160
Sentences 10
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

Two lonely heartbroken individuals meet by chance, loved each other without expressing individual feelings for the other.

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Submitted by prithvi_d on June 06, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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