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 |
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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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