Analysis of All Your Names Are In Me
At dawn, your skin speaks to me through my skin like a drum beat
Tawny creatures of fur and feather, dance your dawn names
in onion skin colors across my sky
And the ripples in water say your day names
In endless knots of light and shadow
At evening your dusk names echo in my chest
like a savored breath of ocean air
Swim dance your dark names in the corners of my eyes
And all my steps feel a slippery pull
As though there is a tide that runs north to you
All your names are in me
Your names are in the fibers of my weave
Your sun and moon are making a tapestry of me each day
My threads seek you even across infinite,
microcosmic gulfs of electrons and light,
Come to you even in the guise of common words,
Hinting at the song of you and me
Scheme | XAXAX XXXXX BXXXXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111111011 1010110101111 0101100111 00100101111 01011101 11011110011 101011101 111110010111 0111101001 11110111111 111101 1110010111 110111001001111 11111001100 11101001 111100011101 101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 727 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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