Analysis of Meeting
How much must I have had
To give up on meeting you?
How long must they all
Have been dearer to you?
What I did not know was
That meeting you would cause me pain;
You have allowed me to be mad
And love you in vain.
You have let me down
Through your feeling;
You are just prolonging
My worthless sense of living.
I have felt very sad
That you are seeking others,
I have lost the zest for living
While you were siding with another.
How will your own people
Accept you and me
While you are dearer to them;
What will I be?
Writing you letters and then
Just burning them all,
Re-reading your letters
Our lost happiness to recall.
You are living in happiness
And I am suffering;
Why can I not just kill my needs
And go to my sleep?
Never to be awakened nor waiting
For you in my worrying,
What a meeting it would be,
Just my soul in your keeping
Scheme | ABCB XDAD XEEE AFEX XGXG XCFC XEXX EEGE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 111111 1111101 11111 111011 111111 11011111 11011111 01101 11111 1110 111010 1101110 111101 1111010 11101110 110101010 111110 01101 1111011 1111 1011001 11011 110110 10110011 11100100 011100 11111111 01111 1011010110 1101100 1010111 1110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 823 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Sadness and Happiness are interlinked and should be accepted as the award of meeting another
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Submitted by prithvi1941 on June 06, 2021
Modified by prithvi1941 on June 06, 2021
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