Analysis of The Passage of Time
The ticks and marks of the clock
Go on and on
Every second, minute, and moment
I want you back
The bee soars over to the next flower
Time to pollinate
He died three days later
Got caught in between a couple of twigs in a field
they were sooting the land when you parked outside my house
I stared at you as you wiped a tear from your eye before getting out
Everything around me is a color I can’t perceive
So what am I seeing?
This happened when you left
Took the dog, crashed into the mailbox, drove away
The fox snuggles up under a tree for shade
Awaiting the night
Before the night can come
Some teenagers ambush him and skin him alive
Now I don’t look at your pictures
Now I don’t call your phone
The town I drive through is finally changing
The colors are visible
The garbage cans in front of people’s homes
Just don’t smell as bad as they used to
The ducks in the pond search for fish
I notice it
My vision, my thoughts consumed
Are now viable to new sights and sensations
I have come to realize you weren’t what I thought
You weren’t worth waiting for
The dog runs away and finds me
at a 7/11 on a Thursday
You are nowhere to be seen
I take him in, bath him, and try to be reminded of you
I am not
We cuddle up on the couch
I read a book, he chews on a bone
The chickens in their coop lay eggs
And do not think of the things I do
They only know how to be present
I am present, but that isn’t enough
I wanted you, for so long, to be that enough
But you weren’t
If everything was made for me
Why am I not happy?
You weren’t the Jewel
I was; I was the enough
The search for meaning, the yearn for something
The bee wants the pollen, the fox wants the night
But no matter how many years pass,
People die, or lovers leave
I will still be, existing to satisfy myself
Watching the passage of time
Scheme | XX AX BX BX XX CD XE XF XX XG DH XI XX XX XX JEX IX XG XI AK KA JJ HK DF XC XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101 1101 1001010010 1111 0111010110 1110 111110 1100101011001 101011111111 11111110111101101 1001110101101 111110 110111 10110101101 0111100111 01001 010111 1101101101 11111110 111111 01111110010 0101100 0101011101 111111111 01001111 1101 1101101 111001110010 11111011111 111101 01101011 10101 111111 111011011101011 111 1101101 110111101 01001111 011110111 110111110 111011101 110111111101 111 1101111 111110 11010 1111001 0111001110 01101001101 111011011 1011101 11110101101 1001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,873 |
Words | 421 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 26 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 53 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
This poem explores the complex nature of our existence through the lens of losing and accepting the lose of a lover.
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