Analysis of Picasso”



Eyes kiss
Lips seek

Mouths embrace
Bodies speak

Tongues touch
Hands savor

Spicy, sweet, fleshy flavors        

Feeding  you
Fills  me           
            


Scheme XA XA XX X XX
Poetic Form
Metre 11 11 101 101 11 110 1011010 101 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 178
Words 30
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 1, 2
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 20
Words per stanza (avg) 4

About this poem

One day I was thinking about the different ways we express love and passion. For example, we may be “touched” as deeply by a someone’s gaze as by their hand. As I wrote the poem, Picasso’s artwork came to mind.

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Written on April 28, 2023

Submitted by susan.brumel on January 09, 2024

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Susan Mayer Brumel

I am a retired hospice social worker, who began writing poems about 2 years ago. I am married, a mom of two sons, a Bernese Mountain Dog, and grandma of two grandchildren who are the loves of my life. A lover of all animals and most people, I enjoy spending time in nature, long walks, and reading Pablo Neruda, Blake, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Leonard Cohen, and more. Baudelaire tells us to ‘be drunk’ on something every day; I am drunk on poetry and intend never to be sober! more…

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