Analysis of Bristle Has Come



as time passes
and it mingles with the wind,
all the memories
of my mother's breastfeeding,
I stole a kiss from his chin,
the air I breathe
knows me more than I
know myself,

but the apple tree is,
not a friend I look in the eye
or my torn pages from days passing,
the apple tree is,
the sun's first light
and the moon's goodbye
when I learned to be besides
shadows, I formed this bond
walk on steadily, stand on steadily
I found myself wishing,
time remembers
remembers and forgets
me before I held
the very cup of water.

I'm absent-minded,
the feeling of love is hungering
I want to embroider him
in the fabric of my being,
feel him, always feeling him
and everything under the sky
won't watch him without my presence,
what is he, how is he, why is he?

if I could not feel lonely
on a starless night,
feel myself choke on a dream
as time hasn't touched me there,
but I'm breathing,
breathing memories
I don't remember, like I live
I live as something new,
something forgotten, something
if only I was without this lonely
and a thought of a boy
I met by my yearning's impatience;
lonely while time watches me.


Scheme XXABXXCX DCBDECXXFBXXXX XBGBGCHF FEXXBAXXBFXHF
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 0110101 10100 1110100 1101111 0111 11111 11 101011 10111001 111101110 01011 0111 0011 1111101 11111 1110011100 11110 1010 010001 10111 0101110 11010 010111100 1110101 00101110 111101 0101001 11101110 111111111 1111110 1011 111101 1110111 1110 10100 11010111 111101 1001010 1101101110 001101 11111010 1011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,150
Words 253
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 14, 8, 13
Lines Amount 43
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 216
Words per stanza (avg) 53

About this poem

This poem is about the feeling that comes from looking back at, when you hadn't realised just how much time has passed.

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Written on February 25, 2023

Submitted by ciawillie on March 26, 2023

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