Analysis of is time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then
there are ways to hold pain like night follows day
not knowing how tomorrow went down.
it hurts like never when the always is now,
the now that time won't allow.
there is no manner of tomorrow, nor shape of today
only like always having to leave
from and toward the future's could-be,
in order to never more see
the sí;
and if forever proves me wrong,
it'll hurt with the hurt of before the before.
it'll have to take me along:
all the never-enough of why and therefore.
life has given me much to believe,
but more is the doubt that undid what i know,
for, like night follows day, the pleasure is sure,
of forever beginning once more.
Scheme | AX BB ACDDX EFEF CX XF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111101 11010111 1111010111 0111101 1111010111101 10111011 100101011 01011011 01 01010111 101101101001 10111101 1010011101 111011101 11101101111 11110101011 101001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 5, 4, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
from X-Ex-Exis. Copyright © 2020 by Raquel Salas Rivera.
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Written on 2020
Submitted by Drone232 on May 25, 2022
Modified on April 25, 2023
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