Analysis of "losing her hem"



Cocoa walks through the door with a sadness,
a look,
she says her moms got stomach cancer,
I fall on her rivers uneasy.
She says say something funny,
make me laugh,
as I choke on empathy and tell her of my dad.
I can't think of anything funny to say,
as I come around in her ghost,
her sadness overwhelms me like a drape,
as I am a decoration on her window.
Is this a joke?
How could this be?
I've lost touch,
in her eyes to see,
that I reek.
Inside my eyes she's so pretty,
letting the sunlight in,
all I can do is close the curtains.
Whilst she is losing her hem again,
she's so cute.
She says it's my style,
I'm setting a trend.
I said you wear it well,
we laughed I guess?
I told a joke?
Now, I have to go Bunny,
my rides here.
She smiles,
my hem is a rye?
It's at the end of it's rope?
I said Cocoa your hem it's so baroque!
She says don't leave without saying good-bye?
She's a poet,
she says,
I'm to dark you wouldn't understand.
I said I don't know?
I'm just fantasy,
I'm just, "tan."


Scheme ABCDDEFGHIJKDLDMDNOPQRSTUKDVWXYKXZ1 2 JD3
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011010 01 110111010 111010010 1111010 111 1111100010111 1111101011 11101001 010011101 11100101010 1101 1111 111 00111 111 01111110 10010 111111010 111100101 111 11111 11001 111111 1111 1101 1111110 111 11 11101 1101111 1110111101 1111011011 1010 11 11111001 11111 11100 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 954
Words 203
Sentences 20
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 39
Lines Amount 39
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 731
Words per stanza (avg) 202
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Steven Louis Chapman

Steven was adopted, his biological father was an English professor who had an affair with a student. Writing poetry is an outlet for his expression of love. A hopeless romantic in search of his soul mate. (it changes from now and then) He hopes to capture the girl of his dreams through poetry. Visit my blog at http://thedailypoetrss.blogspot.com/ for the latest up to date poems. more…

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