Analysis of When Someone You Love Is Gone



Separated and lonely you feel a deep despair.
Intuited, it's only a murk you need to share.

With every morning sunrise a warm greeting was known.
Evening light met it's demise as sweet "goodnight" was shown.

Hand-in-hand and side-by-side you walked along the way.
The soul secrets, undenied, you never did betray.

Found together here and there, united was your scene.
You have breathed communal air in each daily routine.

When someone you love is gone there is a missing heart.
It is hard to carry-on once you've been torn apart.

Yet a connection remains in spirit memory.
You meet beyond earthy plains, metaphysically.


Scheme AA BB CC DD EE XX
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 100010110101 1110011111 1100101011011 101110111111 1010111110101 01101110101 1010101010111 1110101011001 111111110101 1111101111101 1001001010100 11011011
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 608
Words 104
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 30, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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