Analysis of Faded Green Walls
Sunlight creeps in through open shades,
Reflecting on faded green walls.
Tears fill my eyes as darkness fades,
Another day roaming these halls.
Why am I trapped in these shadows?
What sentenced me to this cold place?
Heartache has made me grow hollow,
My lost soul is just empty space.
Foggy memories shift and release,
Faces haunt the void of my mind.
Did my life ever include you?
Does confusion ever unwind?
Things done that had seemed so harmless,
It was just a party with friends.
How could we be so damned careless?
Broken lives won't easily mend.
What pleasure is worth all this pain?
When "fun" comes at such a great cost.
I promise, please, never again,
Too late, for our futures are lost.
This town, its people despise me.
My demons have caused so much doom.
I don't deserve your forgiveness,
Their children lie buried in tombs.
These families think me so lucky,
For with their beloved I did not fall.
But now death sounds peacefully happy,
Compared to these faded green walls.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC XDXD EXEX XXXX FXEX FXFB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (43%) |
Metre | 1101101 01011011 11111101 01011011 1111011 11011111 1111110 11111101 101001001 10101111 11110011 10101001 11111110 11101011 11111110 10111001 11011111 11111011 11011001 111101011 11110011 11011111 11011010 11011001 110011110 111011111 111110010 01111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 993 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
This poem is about a friend's mistake. One, from her youth, that she regrets every day. Hopefully she will be able to forgive herself someday.
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Written on March 04, 2023
Submitted by donnam.76665 on March 04, 2023
Modified on April 17, 2023
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