Analysis of Shreds of Love



Somehow I’ve lost my way
Wake up and find it’s a new day
And I don’t know where I’m going

Memories fill my mind
And I’ve lost track of the time
Where I’ll end up, there’s no knowing.

Years go by, seems we drift apart
All our dreams have turned to dust.
Can we go back in time, or make a new beginning
Is there hope or have we lost?
Lives divided, desires collided,
All our passion faded with the wind.
Is everything we had lost and gone forever
Or can we find it once again?

We started out so strong,
Thought it would last for so long,
Now I’m desperate and frightened.

I dreamed we’d last forever,
Facing the years together,
I see the end now, deadly silence.

The heart that used to sing, each time you came to me
Now weeps in endless agony.
Pain within my soul, feeling I’ve lost control,
Can’t find a place for me to breathe.
Holding onto the past, can’t seem to make it last,
Darkness closes in and leaves me blind.
The sky dawns dark and gray, I mourn the loss each day,
The tattered shreds of love we’ve left behind.


Scheme AAB CXB XXBXXCDX EEX DDX FFXXXCAC
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 11011011 01111110 100111 0111101 11111110 11111101 11011111 1111011101010 1111111 1010010010 1101010101 11011101010 11111101 110111 1111111 1110010 1111010 1001010 110111010 011111111111 11010100 10111101101 11011111 101001111111 101000111 011101110111 0101111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,054
Words 222
Sentences 11
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 8, 3, 3, 8
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 131
Words per stanza (avg) 33

About this poem

Written during a tough time, things are much better now.

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Written on May 16, 2010

Submitted by Rogerlbray on April 10, 2023

Modified on April 10, 2023

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