Analysis of Bygones




Or ever a lick of Art was done,
Or ever a one to care,
I was a Purple Polygon,
And you were a Sky-Blue Square.

You yearned for me across a void,
For I lay in a different plane,
I'd set my heart on a Red Rhomboid,
And your sighing was in vain.

You pined for me as well I knew,
And you faded day by day,
Until the Square that was heavenly Blue,
Had paled to an ashen grey.

A myriad years or less or more,
Have softly fluttered by,
Matters are much as they were before,
Except 'tis I that sigh.

I yearn for you, but I have no chance,
You lie in a different plane,
I break my heart for a single glance,
And I break said heart in vain.

And ever I grow more pale and wan,
And taste your old despair,
When I was a Purple Polygon,
And you were a Sky-Blue Square.


Scheme xabA cdcd efef ghgh idid babA
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 110011111 1100111 110101 0100111 11110101 111001001 11111011 0110101 11111111 0110111 0101111001 1111101 010011111 110101 101111001 011111 111111111 11001001 111110101 0111101 010111101 011101 1110101 0100111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 747
Words 164
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Bert Leston Taylor

Bert Leston Taylor was an American columnist, humorist, poet, and author. Bert Leston Taylor became a journalist at seventeen, a librettist at twenty-one, and a successfully published author at thirty-five. more…

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