Analysis of Void, Aether, A Promise



Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great
— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, Memoir of Roger de Rabutin

Four thousand meters above the sea, I breathe without air
I feel the same when beside me you are no more
The black, the void chokes me in the moment’s despair
And The Scarlet Fear runs inside me with a thunderous roar

My aching marooned heart bleeds from behind
Of the darkened soul that consumes me at each stride
But love is the golden aether of my troubled mind
An oxygen supply brought to this confusion tide

Without your presence, they were icy nights
Though knowing your fire ignited with my fuel
Is a mild treat, a promise of a beautiful sight

Kindless trouble, is it all in my imagination?
And is the love I feel a mere foolish incantation?

I will never know until she answers my soundless voice


Scheme XA BCBC DEDE XXX AA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1011111111011010101 10111111011 11010010111011 110110111111 010111001001 001011011101001 1100111101 101011011111 111010111101 1100011110101 0111010101 1101100101110 1011010101001 110111010010 01011101100110 1110101110111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 832
Words 156
Sentences 3
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted by hankerkronecaldas on January 24, 2021

Modified on April 28, 2023

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