Analysis of Previous Lives Dreaming

Inge Meldgaard

What am I but a sign to your past
where your path has led before?
When it turned away from me
did it go where you wanted it to?
Did your footsteps take you
where your heart had fled?

Forever you’ve gone,
Forever I stay,
A question with no reply.

Oh fortune’s strange ways I see,
Leading away from you.
Gone are the years between ~
 Did they give you what you wanted them to?
Did your life take the way
that your heart desired?

Forever you’ve gone,
Forever I stay,
A point in a moment of time.

If you turn back to look for me
when your life meets a change in its stream,
You’ll not see me again,
For I am gone,
Just a sign to your past,
No more.

Forever you’ve gone,
Forever I stay,
Unanswered, forgotten, forlorn.

Scheme abcddx EFx cdxdfx EFx cxxeab EFx
Poetic Form
Metre 111101111 1111101 1110111 111111011 11111 11111 01011 01011 0101101 1101111 100111 110101 1111111011 111101 111010 01011 01011 01001011 11111111 111101011 111101 1111 101111 11 01011 01011 1001001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 697
Words 141
Sentences 10
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 3, 6, 3, 6, 3
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Inge Meldgaard

Born in Denmark in 1953, I migrated to Australia with my family in 1957. After spending my school years in Yallourn, I moved to Melbourne in 1970 to attend Monash University. Having graduated with a science degree in 1975, I worked in various fields, such as youth work, teaching, politics (with a special interest in the natural environment), social research, community development, and finally, information technology. I have also completed two graduate diplomas: one in sociology and the other in information technology, both at Swinburne University. Now retired, my last position was as an IT Manager at Monash University. Gardening, art, poetry and writing have also been life-long interests.I have recently published my first book, 'The Cicada', which is a crime/mystery novel, set in Australia, four hundred years into the future.Website: ingemeldgaard.daportfolio.com more…

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