Analysis of You told me; I'm a prisoner of the pronouns.
Petty condition of the human being
who must always feel prisoner of something.
Only the grave is for the free ones
sweet love of mine.
We are always slaves,
even of the false joys
and sorrows that they impose on us.
We have no other our time
but the present,
the only truth that surrounds me
plus the trees, the sky and the stars
and this love that is diluted
in amplitude of vibrations.
When I could recognize you
among a thousand faces
and you settled my steps on earth
when I only lived
listening to the rhythms of space,
sowing stars in the firmament,
pains that yesterday were born
in my soul of a poet.
In this succession of fire made words,
which is repeated in each sleepless dawn,
in nights inhabited by caresses
in each instant made absence,
where your shadow grows larger
and my hope grows weary.
Scheme | AABX XXX XCDXXB XXXXXCXX XXXXXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101010 1111100110 100111011 1111 1111 101011 010110111 11110101 1010 01011011 10101001 01111010 0101010 111101 0101010 01101111 11101 100101011 101001 111001 0111010 0101011011 1101001101 0101001010 0110110 111110 011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 781 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 6, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
I, you, he, we, you, they.
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Written on July 20, 2021
Submitted by remsjlupin on July 20, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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