Analysis of Waiting for You
It was that beautifully bright spring morning
when I was waiting for you,
under a light blue, sun-stained, breathless sky,
taking in the violet view
Of foxgloves nervously brought into bloom
and grass weighed down by early dew.
A young couple holding hands passed me by
while I was waiting for you.
They talked and laughed and glowed, enough to blind
with envy of wanting too
but I kept looking, it hardly mattered,
since I was waiting for you.
Caught off guard by a fumble in the trees,
a dove flew into vision.
I was an unassuming spark amidst
her tender firework show.
Giving promise of technicolour dreams
and life in pink, fresh and new,
she lured me in, tempted my racing heart
when I was waiting for you.
And suddenly, when I looked up at her,
a rush of cool breeze blew through
like a shot, swept the hair from out my eyes
as I was waiting for you.
Seeing an enhanced world for the first time,
lost, and found, and lost again.
Wilting and thriving,
bathing and drowning,
flying and falling
all at once in your beams of summer light.
Like a lull in an eternal ocean
there was nothing I could do,
because all this time I hadn’t known it.
I had been waiting for you.
Scheme | aBcb xbcb xbxb xdxx xbxB xbxb xxaaax dbxb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001110 1111011 1001111101 10001001 111001011 01111101 0110101111 1111011 1101010111 1101101 1111011010 1111011 1111010001 0110110 111010101 01011 1010111 0101101 1110101101 1111011 0100111110 0111111 1011011111 1111011 1010111011 1010101 10010 10010 10010 1110111101 1010101010 1110111 011111111 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,180 |
Words | 246 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
This is a poem about an idea I had whilst out on a walk that I felt like I just needed to write down in some way. This is my first poem. It is about the moment of finding the person you have been waiting for your entire life, whether it be love at first sight or a more gradual realisation.
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