Analysis of Here and There



Only you could send me a post card
that could summarize
a chapter of two lives
in fifteen and one half lines,
saying you are there
and I am here.

San Francisco and Rochester
have nothing in common
except two friends
who think of each other
when the moon rises
beyond the buildings,
and the night sets cold stars
to frame the outline
of our heads.


Scheme XXXXXX AXXAXXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 101111011 1110 010111 0010111 10111 0111 1010010 110010 0111 111110 10110 01010 001111 1101 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 332
Words 66
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 9
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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