20:20 Hindsight

Susan Carle 1962 (Edinburgh)



My 20:20 hindsight
Hasn’t done me any good
In fact it’s left me feeling in
A rather morbid mood

I rue the day I left you
But there’s no sense
In vain regret
And if it’s all bad karma
Then I’ve paid my sodding debt

About this poem

My first poem Written circa 1980

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Submitted by Carle.s on July 12, 2021

Modified on March 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XXAXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 218
Words 46
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 5

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