Analysis of Love and Lamentations
I tried painting you yesterday.
You bled through my brush,
Mudding up my paint water
Until I lost myself
In the liquid colours of your deliquescent smile.
I tried and tried and tried-
I dipped my pen in your breath
Over and over again.
But you, wafer-thin, melted
Away in my palms-
Like camphor
Like a dead man's breath
Like candle wax that
Drips drips drips
Until my room, my world
Wraps darkness around itself
Huddling deep to hide
From the monsters that come out to play by daylight.
Your love for me is an electric bulb.
It gives light,
But dare touch
And it shocks my finger
With a needlepoint.
You are the summer storm
That lashes at my window panes
That tears up my electric wires
That claws at my vegetable patch.
I crouch in my little hole
Just a poet, a scared kitten
Left out in the rain.
My verse pours love out to you
Like ghee into a sacrificial fire.
I wish to make you burn.
I wish to make you rise higher and higher
Until even the mountain tops
Go white in awe of your might.
Oh my dear…
Would you swallow whole my poetry book?
Poor though it is.
Your appetite
Is as huge as the depths
Of your inhuman eyes.
I try and try and try
To press you to my heart
Like a flower pressed between the pages of a book.
But you are the sigh
Dredged up from my toes,
And my hands are too small to hold you.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110 11111 111110 01111 001011111 110101 1111011 1001001 1110110 01011 11 10111 11011 111 011111 1100101 100111 10101111111 1111110101 111 111 011110 1010 110101 11011101 111101010 11111001 1101101 10100110 11001 1111111 1101001010 111111 11111110010 01100101 1101111 111 1110111001 1111 110 111101 110101 110101 111111 1010101010101 11101 11111 011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,318 |
Words | 283 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 9, 9, 12 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Written on October 27, 2022
Submitted by fuljhurim on October 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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