Analysis of Soul Mate



Picture the night
heavy with future memories,
Promises of warming darkness.
Under love's intoxication,
perfect, fragrant skin flushes
bright cherry.
Desire and flesh become one,
sultry, perfumed delight,
darkness envelops.


Scheme ABCDEFDAG
Poetic Form Nonet (33%)
Metre 1001 10110100 10011010 1010010 0110110 110 01001011 100101 10010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 214
Words 30
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 183
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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