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 |
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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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