Analysis of The Desperation of Loss
The tightest you ever hugged me
Was when you knew you lost me.
Your arms wrapped around me,
Like cold steel bars
Trying to contain something
By crushing it completely,
And yet it was still slipping.
No feelings possessed me.
I became numb to it.
After months of enslavement
You no longer controlled
The emotions that had been suffering.
As you grabbed at me
With the desperation
To save what was already gone,
I finally felt everything
That my heart had been desiring.
For months desperation filled me.
I was left constantly filling
The cracks that had formed.
You smiled, glad you didn’t
Have to be the one trying.
The cracks had bested me
As caverns filled
The space between us.
I had worked hard
But was tired of fighting.
The desperation that filled me
Had transferred to you.
It’s seen through the claw marks
You left all over my jacket.
You finally cared you were losing.
Scheme | AA AXBAB ACXXB AXXBB ABXCB AXXXB AXXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011011 1111111 111011 1111 1010110 1101010 0111110 110011 101111 1011010 111001 0010111100 11111 10010 11110101 1100110 111110100 1101011 11110010 01111 11111 1110110 011101 1101 01011 1111 1110110 0010111 10111 111011 11110110 110011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 891 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
People tend to take for granted the people they have around them until it’s too late. The unfortunate part of it is the people that fight for them. This is my story or that.
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