Analysis of G



Charlette is dead.

Flew into my life with fluttering, iridescent wings
I fell from their strong, gentle wind
And other things…

No.  Please God no-
I can’t
I mustn’t
Please
No, no, forever no

(how casually fate requires my fires be quenched by a word I cannot say)

Ah, her journey stopped
All journeys do

One with the other, we loved the reversing of me and you
Now only me
Cowering from a word I cannot say
No matter the saying, it is lodged in my mind
The end of loving now my love has gone away

Love turns to memory, but memory is an imposter
Both fade in time’s cruel grasp

Oh for sweet mercy
That it falls to me alone
To cap the well, put out the fire, and scatter the stones

But I gag on the first phoneme

Dearest Hummingbird, For you I would pull down the curtains of heaven
Fool! Knave! There is no longer your “you” These words fall on silent ears
There is only me, she does not hear

Ah me, the word I cannot say, yet must be
Begins with the letter


Scheme A BCB DXAXD E XF FGECE HX GXX X XXH GH
Poetic Form
Metre 111 1011111000101 11111101 0101 1111 11 11 1 110101 110001010110111011101 10101 1101 110101100101101 1101 1001011101 110010111011 011101111101 1111001100111 1101101 11110 1111101 11011101001001 11110110 1010111111010110 1111110111111101 111011111 11011101111 011010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,009
Words 210
Sentences 6
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 5, 1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 17

About this poem

finality and "goodbye"

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Written on March 25, 2023

Submitted by steve-edwards on March 28, 2023

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