Analysis of your embrace

maya brown 2006 (Sacramento)



i can still hear the clock ticking
i can still feel you here in my heart

i can still see the shadow of your touch
but you're not here to show me that love

so i drown here in my memories
to find a life with you and me

i will hold them till my depart
while you're regretting loving me from the start

so i stand here in the crowd of our town
allowing me to grieve for the love we cease to have found

i sit and remember your embrace
the one that gave me hope
the one that showed me love
the one that opened me to joy
the one that i realize now is gone

so i drown in my memories
remembering that life with you and me

i get caught up in your embrace
the one that won't let go
the one that brings me home
the one i can no longer feel
because your embrace is not real

but then i realize it's okay
because you would've never loved me anyway


Scheme XA XB CD AA XX EXBXX CD EXXFF GG
Poetic Form
Metre 11110110 111111011 111101111 111111111 111101100 11011101 11111101 11010101101 11110011101 01011110111111 110010101 011111 011111 01110111 011110111 11101100 0100111101 11110101 011111 011111 01111101 01101111 1111011 01110101110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 808
Words 177
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 2, 5, 2
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on April 06, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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maya brown

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