Analysis of Lover's Song
A girl, a poet
Wrote to me from a far country
Requesting that I reciprocate
In my kind of verse.
I could not write in her own language back
But nibbled in extemporary variation back
The poet's two letters of her name
Subjoined to a slip of verse.
She sent me a poem
Codefied and calibrated
Except the nakedness of her dreams
Locked in the dark
Beneath the womb of thoughts
In a poetic beauty of excellent craftmanship.
Like a seed yet to sprout.
Soon, she declares
She understands me better
Who too can dress old words new
Then she transmutes me into a poem
Singing it to the nod of heads.
Scheme | XXXA BBXA CXXXXXX XXXCX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 01010 11110110 01011010 01111 1111001101 110010101 010110101 110111 111010 10100 0101101 1001 010111 000101011001 101111 1101 101110 1111111 111101010 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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