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
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

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A poem based on characters Patroclus and Achilles from the novel Song of Achilles written by Madeline Miller

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Submitted by benslewis72 on August 28, 2023

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