Analysis of Yesterday's Kiss along the Byway



Searching that highway
en route to you,
...With visions leading
in between you
and a beautiful route to view,

Breathlessly admiring
that foolish byway
along a long starry road,
...on a stairway to heaven,...

Lost in a fantasy
filled with grandeur,
...Yearning on that desire
along that lie and selfish dream,

Reaching for that moment
in craziness
from a fantasy that blinded me,
...Disengaging hope
that always sought to rescue me,...

...Traveling alone
in day after longing day
in fleeting hope and cigarettes,
...Anxiously coping
disappointment en lover's end

My view came alive
as you came along
in a dream,
Bound in a strange theme
resuscitating yesterday's kiss,

...Then found that light in you
for it found me in the mess
that I could never walk away from,

Yet despite this,
your wish
rolled away the stone
from all those years
seaming in lost regret


Scheme ABCBB CAXX DXXE XXDXD FAXCX XXEEG BXX GXFXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 1111 11010 0011 00100111 100010 1101 0101101 101110 100100 1101 1011010 01110101 101110 0100 101001101 00101 1111101 10001 0110101 0101001 10010 0101101 11101 11101 001 10011 0100101 111101 1111001 111101011 1011 11 10101 1111 10101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 821
Words 145
Sentences 10
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 3, 5
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted by gino.vallejo on May 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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