Analysis of Essential
Philip E. Domagala 1952 (Stamford, CT)
I'm restrained,
escorted by my own choices,
fettered by my own design,
and now I think, immersed in the image of a
peaceful union with the elements,
as your warmth cradles me in contentment,
your breath, more eloquent than words,
your skin, wakens me with each touch,
I labor to stay in this place,
to arrest the reality of my conscripted prison,
a technical keeper required to exist in an unnatural,
man made world,
and your head on my chest telling me that the
veil of contingency has no significance,
that true value is in the sharing of two souls,
two people molded into one composition,
consecrated by the piquant lure of obtained desire,
the humid commotion of feelings,
manifested, confirmed,
in the gentle kiss of sun-sweetened lips.
Copyright
Phil Domagala
Scheme | XXXAXXXXXBXXAXXBXXXX XA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 01011110 1011101 011101001010 101010100 1111010010 11110011 1111111 11011011 1010101101010 010010010101010100 111 01111110110 110100110100 111010010111 11010011010 10010101101010 010010110 10001 0010111101 10 10010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 745 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 2 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 306 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on April 18, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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