Analysis of Speech Lessons
Often, he'll switch f's and p's.
At dinner, he'll ask you to hand him a pork,
and tell you how succulent
the grilled fork tastes.
Often, he'll trade b's for v's.
He'll drop by on afternoons
with a vasket of strawverries
(your paborite pruit).
Sometimes, he'll even turn s's to z's.
But this one, particularly this one,
he thinks, sounds pretty cool -
feel the surge of macho, self-assurance
every time he says: i miz u hun.
But when the time came, he asked
if he could know your friends,
you just couldn't imagine
how they can be his priends too.
On the evening he changed u's to o's,
you bore witness
to the slow
drain
of magic
from a romantic
foll moon.
When he called the next morning
to say: absence makes the heart grow ponder.
You knew, you had to hang up the phone.
When he invited you for a sip of ka-ber-net,
you told him: CA-ber-NEY,
then left him to drink alone.
When he asked why you suddenly lept,
you realized: you had to leave him for good.
But on nights,
singly snug in bed,
you wake to dreams of his touch
and long for his husky moans.
You wonder, then learn from his string of words:
Absence can make the heart grow, ponder.
Scheme | AXBX AXAB ACXXC XXCX XXXXDDX XEF XXF BXXXXXXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 11011111101 0111100 0111 1011111 111101 10111 111 0111011011 111100011 111101 1011101010 1001111111 1101111 111111 1110010 1111111 101011111 1110 101 1 110 10010 11 1110110 1110101110 111111101 1101011011111 111111 1111101 111111001 1101111111 111 10101 1111111 0111101 1101111111 101101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,105 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4, 7, 3, 3, 8 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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