Analysis of Absence
Your absence is silence
that screams to be heard
like re-reading a sentence
but not grasping one word.
The blandness of white
needing a splash of blue or green
like observing a masterpiece
and it remaining unseen.
Missing you is salt
searching for tears
it’s months out of season
and weeks without years.
It’s blood that flows backwards
in and out of my veins
and the bluest of skies
releasing the blackest of rains.
By dusk I am restless
as day yields into night
I am no longer equipped
to engage in this fight.
So willingly now
I surrender to sleep
to revel in dreams
of you I can keep.
Scheme | ABAB CDXD XXXX XEXE XCXC XFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 110110 11111 1110010 111011 01011 10011111 1010010 0101001 10111 1011 111110 01011 111110 001111 001011 01001011 111110 111011 1111001 101011 11001 101011 11001 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Love’s void
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