Analysis of The Longest Walk



I watch you from a distance,
I see everything you do,
I feel this longing persistence just to walk right up to you.

I'd tell you how much I liked you,
You'd tell me how much you cared.
We'd walk into the sunset, thinking of all the love we'd share.

I wake up in the morning,
I'm staring at the wall.
I feel an incredible emptiness, it was only a dream, that's all.

I'm watching you from a distance,
I'm observing everything you do, and like in all my previous dreams,
I want to walk up to you.
I take a deep breath, my feet start to move, my mind begins to spin,
what will I say to you?

I reach my destination,
you look at me and smile.
Was there a hesitation?
Did I just walk a mile?

My heart skips a beat as I tell you how I care.
I look into those eyes,
is there something hiding there?

You tell me how much you like me as you gently take my hand.
We walk into the sunset,
walking through the sand.


Scheme ABB BXC XDD AXBXB EFEF CXC GXG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010 111011 111100101111111 11111111 1111111 11010110110111 1110010 110101 111010010011100111 11011010 10101011010111001 1111111 1101111111110111 111111 111010 111101 110010 111101 111011111111 110111 1110101 111111111110111 110101 10101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 929
Words 213
Sentences 14
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 5, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 26

About this poem

I wrote this years ago when thinking about my crushes and just couldn't get the courage to tell them

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Written on June 21, 1988

Submitted by Staceann on December 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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