Analysis of Your back to me.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
I don't... hate you!
Let your whites show
I wouldn't fear your blinding glow.
Show me you age,
for it's your age I know.
| Scheme | ABBCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
| Metre | 1111 1111 11011101 1111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 117 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
Loss of conversation
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Written on September 07, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on September 07, 2021
Modified on March 22, 2023
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