Analysis of Fantasy Love's Chase

Tammie Swinehart 1974 (Mooresville, IN)



In realms where dreams take wing on whispered sighs,
A tale unfolds of love's elusive ties.
Two souls entwined in fantasy's embrace,
Yet one remains a distant, hidden grace.

A heart aflame with longing's fiery hue,
Chasing shadows, hoping to break through,
In twilight's dance, where stars begin to gleam,
One heart reaches out, while one remains a dream.

A wistful figure, ethereal and fair,
A visage bathed in moonlight's tender glare,
The seeker's steps, like petals on the breeze,
A symphony of longing through the trees.

But in this realm, where yearning meets the night,
The dreamer's voice is but a fleeting light,
Each whispered word, a ripple in the air,
Yet the distant heart seems not to hear or care.

Oh, the chaser's steps are marked with grace,
A delicate pursuit in this enchanted place,
Yet the elusive heart, like a phantom's wisp,
Dances just beyond the chaser's fingertips.

With every dawn that paints the skies anew,
The chaser's hopes remain steadfast and true,
A silent echo of a heart's refrain,
Yet the distant heart remains unmoved, unchanged.

Is this a tale of love's unending quest,
Or a fantasy woven by dreams' unrest?
A dance of hearts, forever out of sync,
One reaching out, the other on the brink.

In realms of fantasy, love's story's told,
A tapestry of emotions, both young and old,
A chaser's heart, a distant heart entwined,
A love unspoken, yet forever bind.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF GGEE BBXX CCXX HHII JJKK
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 0111111101 0101110101 11010101 1101010101 0101111001 10110111 011110111 11101110101 01010010001 010101101 0101110101 0100110101 1011110101 011110101 1101010001 10101111111 10111111 010001010101 1001011011 101010110 11001110101 01101101 0101010101 10101010101 1101110101 10100101101 0111010111 1101010101 0111001101 010010101101 011010101 0101010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,402
Words 277
Sentences 10
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 30

About this poem

This poem is about unrequited love having hope that the person you are chasing will eventually come around.

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Written on August 21, 2023

Submitted by EmberPoems on August 21, 2023

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Tammie Swinehart

Not much to say. I live in a small town in Indianapolis and work full-time as a manager for an insurance company. I have written poems going back to grade school. They were all horrible, but fun and passed the time. I have journals of poems that go back 40 years. So now that I have more free time, I dig them out, clean them up while preserving the original thought and meaning behind them. more…

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