Analysis of The linguist
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
Making love to him was like hearing music in a thousand languages.
With every touch he described the beauty and intricate quality of her fragile garment.
His passion was so delicate it felt like it might last an eternity.
An eternity she could never be lost to.
Like a cycle of lace shawled around priceless china, he took hold of her needs in a number greater than any assignable quality of countable value.
He offered her body gifts so appropriate and necessary, it emphasised the total making of her being.
Providing something entirely new and astonishing with the subtlest suggestions of love held almost motionless with irremovable strength of feeling.
So she gifted him two hearts joined together, one representing the feelings of love she had, the other for his feelings of love he had, as a representation of infinity.
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Metre | 101111110100010100 110011010100100100101010 1101110011111110100 101001110111 10101110110101111010010101101100110010 110010110100010011010101010 0101001001001001010101111100111110 11101111010101001011110101110111110001010100 |
Characters | 827 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 84 |
Words per line (avg) | 18 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 674 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
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Written on July 04, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on July 04, 2022
Modified by HeatherLydiaThornhill on July 04, 2022
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