2. The Walk - Alec Mazurek

I was walking down a lane
Thinking of something to numb the pain
I feel myself slowly wane

Sitting by a cackling fire
Remembering the tales of a liar
With nothing mentioned prior

I sat down by the bridge
Near the river, on the ledge
I've been pushed towards the edge

Looking down the river
The moon glistening like silver
Nothing left to deliver

I no longer have a hero
There is nothing left to borrow
Except for my own sorrow
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This poem is about a person who simply couldn't handle everything that was happening to him/her and basically decided to reflect on what happened in different situations. I wrote this poem directly after taking a walk through a forest, where everything was sort of grim and bleak.

This poem is a ballad, with a rhyming scheme of one rhyme per stanza. The rhyming pattern would be AAA, BBB, CCC, DDD, EEE. It could also be a narrative poem, because it is in the first person and focuses on one story.


Figurative Elements - Onomatopoeia (Line 4) and Metaphor (Line 11)