Analysis of wasted time

rileigh 2008 (florida)



help me, for the time I have wasted hands me problem after problem.
time after time I waste my life away knowing all my emotions hang upon me like a weight wrapped around my neck.
hour after hour I spend my days watching as kids walk by my home throwing rocks at my windows.
as the windows break, rain seeps through the broken-down house.
this broken-down house has many memories.
memories nobody wants to remind themselves of
but we still carry on with our day rotting away knowing the secrets the house leaves behind.
knowing what we know we can't tell their secrets to the newcomers; they will have to figure it out for themselves.


Scheme ABCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 11101111011101010 11011111011011010101110110111 1010101111101111111011110 1010111101011 11011110100 10011101011 111101110110011001001101 10111111110101011111011101
Characters 634
Words 121
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 63
Words per line (avg) 14
Letters per stanza (avg) 507
Words per stanza (avg) 115

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Written on July 19, 2023

Submitted by gentlepoet on July 19, 2023

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