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
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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Written on June 25, 2023

Submitted by kwortz on June 25, 2023

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