Analysis of When love no longer reigns
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Depending
upon your point of view,
Where the slow-motion parade
of memories of me and you
ones we would most love to save,
reside.
Times,
where passion filled emotions
once ruled
ones, we had held close
between us
we might have sworn
Would never fade
Become unraveled
here before us, here and now
With danger
of falling apart, so close.
Its presence felt so near
It never seems to fade
We are even
shedding tears in different ways
Almost afraid
to breathe together.
Where once
we had thought we had had it made
Now here we are
living moment by moment
at this gathering of hopes and fears
Struggling to survive,
losing ground to foolish pride
Remaining calm amidst the storm
A lost art alone
In remembrance of times before,
your lovely face, your warm embrace.
Kisses and clasping hands
our sacred space
our loving moments spent more than not,
at times in long quiet conversations
Others, naught.
In solemn contemplation,
we fed one another's heart,
dreams we had bought
In mutual chain reactions
with our compassion.
Where love resides
before the tempest rose
And those who had thought
we would fail
Felt assured,
our loving moments
would be lost
Soon, we would
slip like shadows into the past
Won their bet with the devil
as all hell broke loose
The first barrier erected,
so insignificant a thing
Sealed our fate
when we failed to set aside
a creeping doubt,
being together was all about
Tore holes in our formerly sacred space
What loves protection held,
faded fast...
What we had carefully erected In love
By angers wrath, suddenly erased
The cold winds laughing became the gale
Breaking waves rose over our walls to overtake us.
Ripping all sense of security between our prayers
All that we had valued, gathered near.
Scattered. As if nothing mattered anymore.
What held us together
our innermost treasured moments of bliss,
Held close to heart, swallowed by fear
Skeletal keys to the doors of happiness
No longer gave us passage
to the healing powers of our tattered dreams.
What emotions we once expressed best together,
so swiftly fell apart, went wild and ran away
As once abandoned,
without love to bind it to us
Could no longer be
contained
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| Metre | 010 011111 1011001 11001101 1111111 01 1 1101010 11 11111 011 1111 1101 01010 1011101 110 1100111 110111 110111 1110 10101001 101 11010 11 11111111 1111 1010110 111001101 100101 1011101 01010101 01101 00101101 11011101 10011 10101 1010101111 110110010 101 010010 1110101 1111 01001010 110010 1101 010101 01111 111 101 101010 111 111 1110101 1111010 11111 01100010 1010001 1101 1111101 0101 100101101 11010100101 110101 101 11110001001 110110001 011100101 1011101011101 10111010001101 111110101 1011101001 111010 1010101011 11111011 10011011100 1101110 101010110101 101011011010 110101110101 11010 01111111 11101 01 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 2,311 |
| Words | 498 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 50 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 84 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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