Analysis of Letting You Go...



I spend my days
in celibacy unchosen
living the desperation
we share

Anguished in the knowledge
that needing you unbroken   
transcends the sentence
of this chair

I hear your words, I feel your touch
imprisoned by our love
and wish to free you from this pain
to meet again above

My memory holds each tryst endeared
your beauty most sublime
to relive as I stay in place
—virility confined  

(The New Room: July, 2022)


Scheme XAAB XAXB XCAC XXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 010001 100010 11 100010 1101010 01010 111 11111111 0101101 01111111 110101 110011101 110101 10111101 010001 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 430
Words 86
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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