Analysis of I Am What You're Missing
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
I am what you've been missing.
From head to toe.
Hugging in the kitchen
Kissing.
Until we knew to know,
It gets better in the bed to touch.
Loving what we did to do together.
Done so much.
Yes I am what you've been missing.
To turn it up hot.
Unlock your door and stop.
Pretending I am not.
I'm outside in the car to start a foreplay.
If you want it here,
I'll begin on your neck,
Then quick to lick your ears.
Outside in my car,
I stay horny day and night.
Thinking of you.
And how we rocked the bed until,
The dawn on grass dewed.
You know,
Like dew on grass to see,
As dawn appears...
on the horizon as the Sun rises.
Slowly drying the grass of its dew.
Leaving me crowing as a Rooster does to do,
A cockel doodle doo.
While coming to a close our knocking boots.
'I don't remember wearing boots to bed.
Or...
A knocking of them.
To sounds of a rooster crowing,
Cockel doodle doo.
Those are not my memories.'
I'm trying to be romantic.
'OH!
So...
How could I have missed,
What didn't happen at all?'
Forget it.
My ambitions just too a nose dive.
And what I had anticipated,
Dropped like stock watching Dow Jones.
'Like who?
Now you know I am not into threesomes.
Although...
It is a thought I might try.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 1111 100010 10 011111 111000111 1011111010 111 11111110 11111 011101 010111 1110011101 11111 101111 111111 11011 1110101 1011 01110101 01111 11 111111 1101 1001010110 101001111 101101010111 01101 11010110101 1101010111 1 01011 11101010 1101 1111100 11011010 1 1 11111 1101011 011 101011011 01110100 1111011 11 111111011 1 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,226 |
Words | 295 |
Sentences | 38 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 9, 8, 6, 1, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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