Analysis of One
Gloriana Smith 1973 (Portland,Or)
Met you alone
One afternoon
Heard on your lips
A forgotten tune
Knew you from
Somewhere outside of time
Hands that color
Outside of the lines
Lost in a moment
Deep in your eyes
The curve of your mouth
Your hands on my thighs
Then quiet and still
Too perfect to move
Breathing in
The smell of you
Tracing a memory
To keep and rewind
Until once more
We are intertwined
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB XXXX XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Tetractys (50%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 1101 101 1111 00101 111 11111 1110 11101 10010 1011 01111 11111 11001 10111 100 0111 100100 11010 0111 11001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 373 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
That first sacred moment in time, when two become one.
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