Analysis of THE MIDDLE OF DECEMBER
One cold evening in the middle of December,
I searched for the pieces of my heart to put together.
It was no easy task as I spent that January,
Putting to rest some painful memories.
By February, it was done and it looked brand new,
It was my desire to keep it hidden until I met you.
And one sunrise in the early days of March,
Had me staring at the horizon imagining your touch.
Approaching you was my intention but I just wasn't able,
So I admired you from afar in those slow days of April.
And when I came to you on that day in May,
You made me speechless and I forgot what to say.
I never thought you'd be in my arms by June,
For us to tell stories as we looked at the moon.
Slowly, you became someone on which I could rely,
You were there for me in those painful times in July.
Every minute in August I spent with you,
I bragged to the stars that the love we had was true.
I wish it remained that way and September never came,
For from that month, nothing ever remained the same.
You could have just said what we had was over,
But I had to find you in someone's arms that October.
Whatever had held my heart together disappeared,
November brought back the hurt and the tears.
Now as I sit here alone with the pieces of my heart, I remember,
That today is once again the start of the middle of December.
Scheme | AAXX BBXX CCDD EEFFBBGG AAXX AA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111000101010 11101011111010 1111011111100 1011110100 110011101111 1110101111001111 0110010111 111010010010011 0101110101111010 1101011010111110 01111111101 111100101111 11011101111 111110111101 101011111101 101110110101 100100101111 111011011111 11101110010101 111110100101 11111111110 1111110111010 10111101001 0101101001 111110110101111010 10111010110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,313 |
Words | 290 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 8, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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A year of love and loss
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