Analysis of Forever Lost



I tried and tried to tell you,
but I was lost in mixed emotion

I tried to not offend your spirit,
as I wandered looking for a home

I tried to make you understand,
the hard edges would soon come off

But in the morning your fear returned
—our love forever lost

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111 111101010 111101110 111010101 1111101 01101111 100101101 1010101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 292
Words 56
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 13, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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