Analysis of The Last Good Thing

Morgan Bland 1988 (Tennessee)



Endless days blurred together
Each one harder than the last
No hope left to hold on to
All happiness in the past

No place in this world
For a dark and wayward soul
Cut off from society
Alone with nowhere to go

Going through the motions
In an emotionless living hell
Until I found the thing I loved
More than I hated myself

Years of directionless wandering
And I wandered into you
One look into those sea-green eyes
And in that moment I knew

I have to be something better
Than the nothing I am now
From that day until forever
Became my unbreakable vow

Although the journey is no easier
I still keep up the fight
Because you are the last
Good thing left in my life


Scheme ABCB XXXX XXXX XCXC ADAD AXBX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 1011010 1110101 1111111 1100001 11011 1010101 1110100 011111 101010 011101 01110111 111101 110100100 0110011 11011111 0011011 11111010 1010111 11101010 01101001 101011100 111101 011101 111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 667
Words 133
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 21

About this poem

Written for a person who inspired me not to give up in my darkest moment

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Written on June 29, 2022

Submitted by DLAMDiva on June 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Morgan Bland

Morgan Rhianna Bland is an AVM (arteriovenous malformation) survivor and aspiring writer from Knoxville, TN. The only child of older, overprotective parents, she was raised in a secular democrat household in the middle of the Bible Belt. Due to her illness and her upbringing, she grew up bullied and misunderstood by her community, but she found comfort in the written word. She hopes to use her writing to improve the world so others won't have to go through what she once did. more…

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