Analysis of Hades and Persephone



Down in the abyss
Where the kingdom lies between the hiss
Hades returning to his throne
And awaiting his Persephone

“Where have you been?” He asks
“Oh, my beloved sweetheart” she answers with a spark,
“I was up there with my new garçon, quite an interesting one.
You see he comes from one of my favourite places, the world of great riches, he is mine under the sun.
But my dear, you know I was born in the darkness, so to you my love I always run.”

Persephone climbs onto his lap and starts to caress his face
“And you, my love? Have you found yourself someone on earth to embrace?"
Hades responds “Yes I have indeed, a young beautiful girl actually”
Persephone springs up “How wonderful, I am so glad for you your majesty”.

As they both start to get lost in each other's eyes
The melody of the underworld starts to rise
A full harmony of strings, that accompanies their sins
In the underworld, they were Queens and Kings

Yet it was there in their secret place where they found their pleasure to entice one another
And no matter what they would always come back to each other.


Scheme AABB XXCCC DDEE FFXX GG
Poetic Form
Metre 10001 101010101 10010111 001011 111111 11011110101 111111111111001 111111111100111101111001 11111111001011111111 1110110110111 011111101111101 100111101011001100 11111001111111100 111111101101 01001010111 01100111010011 001010101 1111011011111101011010 01101111111110
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,086
Words 203
Sentences 8
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 169
Words per stanza (avg) 40

About this poem

This is a poem about two soulmates who are still young and want to see other people. We call each other Hades or Persephone as for us they had the most romantic relationship of all.

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Submitted by elisa.l.m on August 13, 2021

Modified on March 07, 2023

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