Analysis of My Past Reclaimed
I didn’t know it at the time,
but my misspent youth was planned
The training ground for what I’d write,
then hard to understand
The many schools, the teachers chides,
expulsions my reward
Postgraduate work for future truth,
all voices untoward
The risks were high, survival mined,
Shangi-La, a vagrant’s room
My pen disclaimed, all actions shamed,
flat broke one afternoon
From the diner’s window I heard the song
that turned my life around
As Gregg Allman sang ‘Melissa,’
my true destiny was found
And today I harbor no regrets,
there’s no one left to blame
As I write the words for me hard one
—my sinful past reclaimed
(Strafford Pennsylvania: July, 2019)
‘Thank You, Gregg—I Miss You’
Scheme | XA XA XB XB XX CX XD XD XX XC XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1101111 01011111 11101 01010101 010101 111101 110001 01010101 110101 11011101 11101 1010101101 111101 11101010 1110011 001110101 111111 111011111 110101 10101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 692 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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