Analysis of Past (Time is everything)
I reach out for your hand and what remains is a memory
When youth was ripe, when wonder was present in every...
Hah...present, I'll never be
at the most, nostalgia, if it was a good memory
What we have, what you'll make, even in the recess of your mind you will remember me
A burden, a gift or just not thinking at all, accepting your fate
Never to meet, yet forever reminiscing of what was, even in the littlest ways, Wait!
... You still think of me
As you hear others saying to forget, you remember clearly and grow up quicker than them
I taught you well and we both will teach the next generation whether it be yours or not. Don't forget that humility isn't the dead oak but the reed who survived by bending its stem
Is what I read to you, be it books or nursery rhymes, showed through art, taught you at school and helped you at work
Grateful and Guilt ridden
So that's what you feel towards me? Like bitter chocolate, bitter joy, bittersweet. Time 'bitters', it's shown in scars even if they heal after hurt
Burden yet Hope
Is what "bitter" means to me, though I couldn't care less about the little things, the bombs and feasts always get me.
You are at my existence, either obsessed or cursing
It never lasts
Just like a band-aid, peace slowly peels of with pain as the wound and the solution as the ointment. But once the band-aid has fallen it's only a matter of time before the scar fades and you forget. The result of a lesson you seem to never learn.
Time is everything
Scheme | A A A A A B B A C C X X X X A D X X D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111010110100 11111101100100 11101 10101011101100 111111100001111110101 01001111101101011 10111010010111100010011 11111 11110101011010100111011 111101111010101011111101101001001110110111011 11111111111001111111101111 100110 111110111101010110110110110111101 1011 11101111110110101010101111 11110101001110 1101 11011110111110100010101011011110110010110101101010011010111101 1110 |
Characters | 1,573 |
Words | 322 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 60 |
Words per line (avg) | 15 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
The personification of the past and how it views humanity and humanity's history
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Written on August 30, 2022
Submitted by Nixa on October 15, 2022
Modified on March 10, 2023
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