Analysis of Holding
My words are like gnarled arthritic fingers.
So many of the beautiful things I try to capture
Slip away.Painful and fumbling.
The way you sleep, baptized in the dawn light.
Makes me feel young and hopeful.. and forgiving even of my own weary flaws.
I long to be able to sketch or paint just this one image.
Because when we wake, time will begin again.
Grinding this perfection to dust. The dust that has slipped between my broken words.
The perfection of you that slipped
rite
off
this
page.
Scheme | X XX AX XX XXAXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101010 11010100111110 110100 0111010011 1111010001010111101 111110111111110 01111110101 1010101101111011101 00101111 1 1 1 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 6 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on December 31, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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