Analysis of Fix My Life
Al Bartolis 1957 (NC)
Fix My Life
Fix my broken life, in one fell swoop today.
Roll its time arc in a box, leaving it to stay.
Constrain it by confining it, deterring all dismay.
Then to the board on which to draw, and back to youth to play.
There’s been no quell to its hell, and heaven had no face.
I’ve grown since to soothe the scars, still bitter is the taste
Of wounds residue, since memories were chaste.
Bless it back to innocence and leaven it with grace.
Withered and weary peace grew with an edge and stain.
My soul healed not, in time nor step, from the blessed to profane.
Symptoms may be reconciled, still illness finds refrain.
Failure mounts and strife surmounts and linger does the pain.
So, oust dark spells to recast new mysteries profound.
Open many doors anew as jest and play abound.
I’ll risk a new unknown from wisdom’s new insight,
Beginning with a lock-less box, where pinholes let in light.
Scheme | X AAAA BCCB DDDD EEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11101011101 111100110111 01110101010101 11011111011111 1111111010111 1111101110101 1110110001 1111100010111 100101111101 11110111101101 101110110101 101011010101 1111101110001 1010101110101 1101011111 0101011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 919 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
Our soul’s journey has shown us both joy and despair, that in retrospect seems to have delivered more gratuitously the more poignant over the joyous and pure. As time passes this can mar our memories and denigrate even the most sublime moments. Starting over from our youthful innocence, where we had a keener ear and eye for the Divine before we were led astray, could bring us new insights along the way.
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