Analysis of Unclaimed Baggage



Round and round the luggage carousel of love in the great airport of life is my emotional baggage

Lost but not forgotten. Unmarked, unclaimed and unwanted.
It serves me no good purpose. I am better off without it.

Still it calls to me ...

"Come pick me up..."   It whispers to me at 3am
"We'll go over old times..." It promises at 4am
"I miss you..."   It lies to me at 5am

In my mind's eye I see it, a non-descript tan suitcase, eternally circling, eternally hopeful...

Perhap's tonight I shall go to the counter and claim it. Its the right thing to do and it'll be fun. After all We have a lot of history together...

... a lot of laughs... and, oh yes, a lot of tears, too.

A g*dd*mn lot of tears.

Maybe tomorrow I'll be up for the task. The re-union,
but not tonight.

For tonight I'll sleep without memories or regrets or desire.

There is no need to hurry.

It will always be there for me...

Circling and patiently waiting
-- dtw


Scheme X AX B CCC X D X X XX D B B XA
Poetic Form
Metre 101010101100111111010010 11101001010010 111111011101011 11111 11111101111 111011110011 111111111 0111111011110100100010010 10111110100111011110101110111011100010 011101101111 0111111 10011111010110 1101 10111011001011010 1111110 1111111 100010010 1
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 914
Words 178
Sentences 22
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on June 18, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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