Analysis of His Shoes at the Door
I miss his shoes resting at my door,
His heart as I begin to snore,
The stories he’ll keep repeating,
His charming ‘it’s not just me’ thing.
I miss the way his apologies-
Don’t sound surreal,
Or pining to please,
But like a gentleman,
Sound complete.
I miss the sound of his footsteps,
Next to mine as darkness sets.
The bus rides and the swings,
The steps and our matching rings.
I love the way he lights up evenings,
And the telescope through which he sees things.
I love how I am still myself,
Even with him for hours.
That he admits to needing-
Some isolation flowers.
I love the way he holds me close
And kisses me in bed.
Even when I feel like a ghost,
Or look like something dead.
I love his dreary moods,
His cheerful moments, plenty,
His hands, his heart, his eyes, his mind-
His voice a solitaire gentry.
Someday he’ll be back in my space,
With his shoes resting at my door.
Until then I’ll write and swoon,
Waltzing through the storm.
Scheme | AABB CXCXX XXDD DDXEBE XFXF XGXG XAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110111 11110111 01011010 11011111 110110100 1101 11011 110100 101 1101111 1111101 011001 01010101 110111110 001011111 1111111 1011110 1101110 101010 11011111 010101 10111101 111101 111101 1101010 11111111 1100110 1111011 11110111 0111101 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 979 |
Words | 210 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 6, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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