Analysis of I miss you

David Kingston 1981 (Blenheim)



I miss you
In the evening,
And at the day,
I fall afoul,
A mind not straight.
Most of all though,
The morning brings despair,
A touch, a kiss
A gentle whiff of hair,
Makes all that is lost,
And all that’s not there.


Scheme ABCDEFGHGIG
Poetic Form
Metre 111 0010 0101 1101 0111 1111 010101 0101 010111 11111 01111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 220
Words 52
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 161
Words per stanza (avg) 44

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A poem for distant love

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Written on November 12, 2023

Submitted by davidkingston on November 12, 2023

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David Kingston

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