Analysis of Himeros' Curse



            Gazing at the moon and stars
              in the ethers above,
              i envy their togetherness,
             crave the evasion of my lonesomeness.
             I lay her drowning in amy anguish and turmoil.
             This unrequited love drains me of life,
              its tormenting embrace fills me with comfort,
             i have found peace in the war i waged against
             myself,
             i seek refuge in this state of exile,
             felt serenity in the midst of chaos,
             utmost pleasure in bitter pain.

Love is a madness
          that cunningly, seducingly draws one from sanity,
          a nightmare
          embellished with the most colorful of garments,
          resembling a daydream at first glance.
          It is a tempest creeping unnoticed to the calmest
         of oceans,
         a pest serpentining its way to devour the greenest
        of crops.

This love i bare for thee has partially destroyed me,
        distance has cut parts of me open,
        but i shall complain no more,
     the deepness of the wounds caused by thine farness
      and thine ignorance of my affection,
       matter not,
       for your presence, a smile or glance from you
       suffice to heals my pains.
       


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,315
Words 202
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 12, 9, 8
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 264
Words per stanza (avg) 59

About this poem

a poem about the pain and ails of unrequited love.

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Written on July 12, 2021

Submitted by EmilyHeCallsMe on September 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Nada Kharbouche

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