Analysis of The Pull of the Tide.
Sacred heart of the maker,
tug at my heart string
as others do to break her.
Thoughts collide in flippant order.
Body proceed on like a soldier.
World flips into a youthful spirit
as words are lost in a lip sliding kiss.
Oh calm these waters as vomit emits
awash these clothes that no longer fit.
Dry out this linen and bring me home
The more to whisper, the more to roam.
To whisper to all with freedom restrained
but blown in the wind so beautifully framed in a breath and breadth of this world and the sky.
The one you forgot and yet keep within your eye.
Remember this babe that you sent to fill
the room with a light, when you're patient and still, and talk to my sleeping mind open hearted this night.
Leave us not forever most dearly departed but allow us to feel whom are necessary.
Scheme | ABAAACDEFGGHIIJKL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010 11111 1101110 10101010 100111010 110101010 1111001101 1111011001 011111101 111100111 011100111 1101111001 110011100100101111001 011010110111 0101111111 011011110010111101101011 11101011001010111111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 791 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 625 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 151 |
About this poem
Tug of war between words.
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Written on January 03, 2022
Submitted by heathert.34240 on January 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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