Analysis of Final separation
Our time has gone, its hands choked with telling.
Memories where we could not live without
touching, held together with its feeling
of skin tight with belonging; beyond doubt.
Now shattered with forgetfulness, whose lost,
remorseful sentience beggars what we had.
A world of sheer intensity that tossed
your dancing curls and drove my wanting mad.
Still turning every head, except for mine,
each brief absence bringing faint relief
and wonder at its callous anodyne;
not even a moment of passing grief.
All those years of tender care ground to dust,
remembered with vagueness and mystery,
like grains of sand slipping their grasping trust,
falling through faked half-truths and misery.
So does the impossible become born,
deformed in its moment of creation,
delivered with a knife, its life air-torn,
lungs screaming parting's last communion.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 10111111110 1001111101 1010101110 1111010011 1101111 010110111 0111010011 1101011101 11010010111 111010101 01011101 1100101101 1111101111 0101100100 1111101101 1011110100 1100100011 0101101010 0101011111 11011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 823 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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