Analysis of ESSENCE OF TRACES



ESSENCE OF TRACES
There is no beginning;
There is no end;
Only the essence of traces.
Each day is a page;
By night that will fall;
From the very beginning;
To the end for us all.
From out of the darkness;
And into the light;
Colors and odors and sounds what a fright.
Dreams turn to memories with time they emerge.
Ever changing stories begin to surge.
We then try to determine;                                                 What was real, what was not.
The truth is evasive, illusive, like fog.
Alone at the end;
The mystery unsolved;
Our bodies then leave us;
And the infinite returns.


Scheme ABCADEBEFGGHHIJCKFL
Poetic Form
Metre 10110 111010 1111 10010110 11101 11111 1010010 101111 111010 00101 1001001101 11110011101 1010100111 1111010111111 01101001011 01101 010001 1010111 0010001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 574
Words 101
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 419
Words per stanza (avg) 149

About this poem

I CREATED IT. IT IS WHAT LIFE IS.

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Written on September 01, 2021

Submitted by elizabethhertz on September 01, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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