The Absent Dimension
Like clock hands
Retraveling spaces
Departures are arrivals
Never the same
Far from my famished stride
The path rests
Obliged and tame
To run,
And run
In circles
In vain
To breathe
To breed
Ticks off the game
Alien to this dizzy frame
To be
Timeless, with no guilt to claim
Spaceless, with no one to blame
About this poem
It's about alienation, estrangement, and being led astray by life's rules
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Written on September 01, 2022
Submitted by areejeweida on September 30, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | XXAB XXB CCAX XXBB XBB |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 310 |
| Words | 63 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 4, 3 |
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