Analysis of Untitled
Johnny Bardine 1979 (Pittsburgh)
Love’s light lit like
the butterfly in the meadow,
her delicate legs dancing
in dew at dusk,
the last rays everywhere,
descending,
down, down,
down to the elemental, to
the truth of it all.
And forgiveness felt like a kiss
and healing felt like healing,
the deep purple of the past
turning—astonishingly—
to white before our eyes.
And the dewdrops made a
tiny whistle when her legs rubbed
against a solitary blade of grass and
only I could hear it.
It sounded like permission, and it was.
It was what I needed to hear at that
moment.
Scheme | XXAXXAXXX XAXXX XXXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 010001 0100110 0111 01110 010 11 1100101 01111 00101101 0101110 0110101 1001000 1101101 00110 10101011 0101001110 101111 1101010011 1111101111 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
I wrote this as a Valentine's Day present to my muse, hero, and fiancé Megan Fernandez.
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Written on February 14, 2022
Submitted by johnnyb.95954 on March 29, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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