Analysis of Keep Me

Daniel Arguelles 1967 (Los Angeles)



I don’t have tears in my eyes or a smile to give you right now. Blue eyes or maybe brown, or maybe yours. Keep me warm, keep me safe, keep me . . . Someday, maybe in pink or maybe in blue, you will see me and find it’s you.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
Metre 111101110111111111101110111111111110011100111110111
Characters 227
Words 47
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 161
Words per line (avg) 50
Letters per stanza (avg) 161
Words per stanza (avg) 50

About this poem

Hope for the future

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Written on December 06, 2002

Submitted by danargue on April 01, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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