Analysis of to not touch her
Another tear to fall.
Another tear to shred my weathered heart.
Now a desperate vacancy haunted by a phantom love;
borrowed but not returned.
Felt by thine eyes alone; weeping, parched. By a comfort
bittersweet in its fullness encompassed within a boundary
adjacent the farthest of arms reach.
This harrowed hail of a hand-maidens cumbersome
grievances lie next to the barren shields of bounty; the
rotten fruit, not to be picked, as a reminder that some
shores of distant lands are not to be conquered.
As well some of the gifts of providence are not safely
nestled within the home.
A hearth that burns evermore, fed by the energy of lust and
loneliness as fuel from a blossoming romance no matter
how brief or unrequited.
Every flutter of my chest with each breath pumps blood
through the veins to the pulmonary archway where, for no
time at all, it waits to enter into
the kingdom of my heart.
Scheme | X A X X X B X C X C X B X X X X X X X A |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 010111 0101111101 10101001010101 11101 1111011011010 100110010010100 010010111 11110110100 10011101011100 10111111001011 11101111110 11110111001110 100101 011110110100110 1001101010001110 111010 1001011111111 101101001111 1111111001 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 944 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 20 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted by M_Lucas_Frost on April 17, 2024
Modified by M_Lucas_Frost on April 17, 2024
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