Analysis of Trojan love
Back then I let you caress
the strings of my heart,
your birdsongs play gentle
on the ears of Apollo.
You found the half of myself,
amongst the ocean within
Poseidons caverns,
now I feel the fireflies fluorescence
burn the depths of my centre.
As cold as I act, you break
the ice, letting the winter pass.
Glazed under the burden
of your fathers and followers
your sun melted through,
illuminating death valley
and all it’s foreign souls.
I watch the shores again, the beaches where you braid my hair.
I still see your face, cast in the
shadow of Artemis and her
pale moonlight, if only your heels
could walk the sand again.
Scheme | AXXX XXXAB XXXXXXX XXBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 01111 11110 1011010 110111 0101001 110 1110101 1011110 1111111 01100101 110010 11100100 11101 0100110 011101 11010101011111 11111100 11100 1111011 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 642 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
A poem based on characters Patroclus and Achilles from the novel Song of Achilles written by Madeline Miller
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