Analysis of Glory



You come to me and doors within
fly open, their sharp reports a song
of heated welcome for your sojourn here

here within me, where your giggle sounds
like tiny bells forged by pixie hammers
tantalizing, enlivening and youth-bringing

our salon of two, discourse traded
in the currency of hope, of appetite
yes the desire to devour our humanity

through exploration of the self
and presentation of that self
to one another, an argent, breathy gift

no expectation of measurement
no striving to be more, in fact
the striving is to be less, and therefore

we verbally struggle to raise the other
higher until we breathless, pagan worshippers
of each other are both looking down

from approving stars, our chaperones
of abandon, our million muses of night
until our parting darkens me

like a carnival in slumber
in the small hours of secrecy
leaving sweet recollection of our love

I await your coming, your rushing river
of fantastical energy, your currents of kindness
and laughingly we ride to our sea of glory

Come to me.


Scheme XXX XAX XBC DDX XXX EAX XBC ECX EXC C
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 110110101 1101011101 101111101 1101111010 10001000110 1001111010 0010011110 100101010100100 1010101 0010111 11010110101 10101100 11011101 010111101 10101011010 100111010100 111011101 101011010 101010101011 01101011 10100010 001101100 1010101101 10111011010 11100110110 0100111101110 111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,041
Words 200
Sentences 2
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 18

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Written on June 22, 2006

Submitted by BradyB999 on March 14, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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