Analysis of Haven’t we met before?”



“You mean you don’t recall,” with a smile
He asked her, “A distant night, years ago, when
The city was still filled with moonlight dreams?
Oh, I remember.  Those nights were narcotic.
When I would be swept under the carpets,
Drunken, in a bed of warm sheets and naked
Memories that I devised, learning
Nothing meant something, kissing
Murmured whispers from your lips,
As I sank into your smoldering gape.”


Scheme ABCDEFGGHI
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11111101 11001011011 010111111 11010110010 1111110010 10001111010 100110110 1011010 1010111 1110111001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 421
Words 79
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 317
Words per stanza (avg) 71

About this poem

A memento of a night out, in a Manhattan, a lifetime ago. On a subway platform, hastily scratched out onto a napkin and then stuffed into my pocket. A poem about...

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Written on January 28, 2023

Submitted by TheOutlawHalo on January 28, 2023

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Robert B. Repenning

Grab shaker. Fill with five decades in Hudson Valley. Mix equal parts: Passion for family, friends, pet-parenting Teddy, Luna and Charlie. Passion for music, literature, philosophy, art, nature, and matters of the heart and the soul. Shake it up. Pour onto a blank page. Season with piquant words, images and memories. Serve chilled in distinctive poems. more…

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