Analysis of The Yearnings in Silence
I’m on my phone,
In the cold all alone,
Trying my all to get to you,
Feels like a lifetime since I last saw you,
You’ve been busy,
I’ve been busy,
I hate to be a disturbance,
So I gave the distance,
It hurts that I can’t seem to get hold of you,
Feels like our world is drifting apart,
I really do understand, rationally, I do,
But sometimes, I’m unable to tame the yearnings in my heart,
My heart longs for you,
Longs for the day we get to relive the past,
The chance to laugh hearty with you,
That time we’ll not be busy but available to enjoy the moment,
Gone were the days we were young and idle,
The time we had no struggle,
No real hurdle in sight, just the curfew,
The beautiful days when I could really hold you,
Time passed,
Things changed,
I grew,
You grew,
Now we’re in a race against time,
We desire not to be left behind by peers,
We’ve gained understanding of life,
It is no bed of roses,
Here I am standing close to your home,
Scared to put a call through,
I don’t want to distract you,
What makes you happy is my priority,
I’m on my phone on your street,
Staring at your picture with the caption, ‘I miss you’
My injured heart hurts more in this cold,
I miss the warmth of your cuddles,
I’ll hold the pain in,
You live in happiness and joy,
I will stand watch from afar,
And hope for the day we come in close again.
Scheme | AABB CCDD BEBE BFBX GGBB FXBB XXXX XBBC XBXC XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 1111 001101 10111111 110111111 1110 1110 11110010 111010 11111111111 1110111001 110101100011 101101011010011 11111 11011110101 01111011 111111010100101010 1001101010 0111110 1110011010 010011111011 11 11 11 11 10001011 101011110111 1101011 1111110 111101111 111011 1111011 11110110100 1111111 1011101010111 110111011 1101111 11010 11010001 1111101 01101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,366 |
Words | 312 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
First draft, written from my longing heart.
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