Analysis of Lost
I once met a man on the street with know home
People would laugh at the signs that he shown
I''ll work for food is what he displayed
But most the world passed him without being fazed
...
One day I asked him where are you from
He quickly replyed know one cares I'm a bum
I glanced and said surely you came from some place
His eyes widened up with a smile on his face
......
He answered from florida with a shy slow breath
He told me his secrets of tourture and death
1971 the year his life changed
Drafted at 18 is what he explained
Things that he told me are better unsaid
His memory is haunted by the ones he seen dead
He came back to people he once thought cared
But he's know longer the same which made everyone scared
He felt so lost in a world that forgot
That he fought for their freedom and now his freedoms lost
He showed me a picture of his beautiful kids
But he feels he can't face them because what he did
The point of this story
Don't judge those you don't know
That bum you just laughed at
Might be a hero unknown
POEM BY:JUSTIN MCCOY
Scheme | XAXX BBCC DDXX EEFF XXXX XXXA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101101111 1011101111 111111101 11011101101 1 111111111 1101111101 11011011111 11101101111 1 110110010111 1111101101 01111 10111101 1111111001 1100110101111 1111101111 111100111101 1111001101 1111110011101 111010111001 111111101111 011110 111111 111111 1101001 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,021 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on February 25, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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