Analysis of Soul Mates



This crazy world we live in,
has been drifting us apart.
But still there is this feeling.
We’re together in the heart.

Money has made you worry
and put your love for me aside.
It wasn’t you weren’t sorry;
hard times had made us fight.

I knew from the beginning,
after the painful breaking up,
our love, it would keep winning;
it was too strong to ever stop.

We both now leading separate lives
at a distance hard to bridge,
unbreakable our love still thrives,
and deep within we’re rich.

So overwhelmed, I am by it,
You‘ve been here to shortly stay,
absorbed your every word and wit,
once more you had to go away.

New people have been added
to the bonds we so well knew.
It’s a fact you have re-wedded;
but the warmth between us grew.


Scheme XABA CXCX BXBX XXXX DEDE FGFG
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 1101110 1110101 1111110 0010001 1011110 01111101 111110 111111 1110010 10010101 10111110 11111101 11110101 1010111 010010111 010101 1011111 1111101 011100101 11111101 1101110 1011111 10111110 1010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 750
Words 164
Sentences 10
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Written on May 07, 2012

Submitted by ludy_b on December 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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