Analysis of You
You.
Were the only one
And, my dear, my darling, it has undone me.
Heart source flames outward, seeking, finding
None.
The rock to my lizard, the lizard to my rock.
We skittered across the skillet’s heat
The crushing delicious, searing, now
Gone.
They say caliche crumbles (bone crumbles)
To gravel, to dust.
Sifting shards through fingers through
days years ages
Searching, lingering, forever
Lost.
Scheme | ABCDBEFGHIJAKLM |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1 00101 01111011011 111101010 1 011110010111 1101011 010010101 1 11110110 11011 1011101 1110 10100010 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 314 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
About this poem
My true love, Sam, lost his life to an aggressive cancer.
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