Analysis of Lost



We watched you battle your demons
We saw you conquer them with pride
What we didn’t see coming though
Was you relapsing the night you died.

I don’t know if you felt alone
I don’t know if it was comfort or for the high
Forgive us for being mad at you
Understand us while we cry.

Loss to addiction is an awful one
Along with grief, the pain is hard to bare
Did you not know how many people loved you?
Or did you know and just not care?

Maybe your struggle was too heavy to carry
Maybe you just made a bad decision in a minute
But the moment you decided to use
Was the moment your life ended.

Now we have to bury you.
Our little town has seen this loss before
You can’t play Russian roulette with the drugs
You can’t keep knocking on heavens door.


Scheme XAXA XBCB XDCD XXXX CEXE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (80%)
Etheree  (25%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11110110 11110111 1111101 110100111 11111101 111111101101 011110111 011111 1101011101 0111011111 11111101011 11110111 101101110110 10111010100010 101011011 10101110 1111101 10101111101 1111001101 111101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 774
Words 170
Sentences 7
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 30

About this poem

For the people we’ve lost along the way. We love you still.

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Written on February 09, 2022

Submitted by Sashalenaecook on February 09, 2022

Modified on April 20, 2023

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