Analysis of A Present Now Unfelt



Twas once a time you stole my heart,
  then Laura stole it back

Through all those years our hearts on fire,
  she waited and she sat

She hoped one day our lives would part,
  to never meet, as then…

Her voice so soft cried through the night,
  “I want you back again

You need to promise this time,
  that you’ll never leave me cold

And even if you dally forth,
  as your Muse she will behold

I heal you of this tragic drought,
  you brought upon yourself

And give you back the future-past,
  in a present now unfelt”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

Note: My Poetic Muse (Laura) takes me back after 5 years of writing prose ....


Scheme AX XX AB XB XC XC XX XA X X
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111 110111 1111101110 110011 111110111 110111 01111101 111101 1111011 1110111 01011101 1111101 11111101 110101 01110101 001011 0100101 110101101111011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 623
Words 116
Sentences 1
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 15, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

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