Analysis of And The Angels Cried
The Angels looked down from above,
watching her as she sat in anxious silence.
Waiting, hoping, wondering if her lover was going to come to her.
They felt the agonizing loneliness that consumed her.
They listened as she silently prayed for the screen to bring forth her lover.
She yearned to read those words.
Words that had the power to tenderly caress her body,
like the soft gentle hands of a lover.
They understood her need for him.
She thirsted for, and was quenched by his impassioned prose.
Each line setting fire to her senses.
She was hopelessly lost inside a fantasy.
Slowly she reached out, softly touching the screen.
They knew her lover would not be coming.
Never again would he ravish her body with unseen hands.
Once more the jilted lover, once more unloved.
Alone she sat in bitter silence, weeping.
And the Angles cried.
Scheme | XXAA AXBA XXXBX CXXCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 10011101010 101010010101101110 11010001001010 110111001101111010 111111 111010110001010 1011011010 1010111 111011110101 1110101010 111001010100 10111101001 1101011110 10011110101011 11010101101 01110101010 00101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 840 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem 25 years ago. I was new to the internet and was just divorced, lonely, and played by a man playing e-mail tag. I learned a valuable lesson.
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