Analysis of Passed Through Life While Sitting on a Bench



I found Myself at a crossroad in life.
As I walked, I saw Me, another Me,
sitting in a white colored bench, dressed in sweat,
with flowers in my head.

I joined Myself in what seemed to be an endless silence.
Then I, the other I, began to speak and I had no idea what I was saying
but my voice felt soothing to my ears.
The bench turned grey and cold.
My words kept spilling like an eternal shower of "maybes" and "what ifs"
but the more I spoke, we spoke, the further away we drifted from eachother.
I told myself that I was no longer my own,
but that the world had a grasp on on who I was.

Me and I, seemed exactly the same
but I was closer to the other side than I could ever hope for.
The bench turned black.
I stood up, and I stood up and two smiles spread
like the road we had before us.
I saw Myself walk away, turned my back,
but the road I had come from was no longer there.


Scheme XXXA XXXXXBXX XBCAXCB
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 1111110101 10001101101 110011 1110111111010 1101010111011101011110 111110111 011101 11110110101011011 10111110100111011 11111111011 110110111111 101101001 11110101011111011 0111 11101110111 10111011 111101111 101111111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 864
Words 183
Sentences 11
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 8, 7
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 224
Words per stanza (avg) 61
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Submitted on May 13, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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