Analysis of Mourning You



I feel lost
I feel broken
Heart heavy
Words unspoken

I loved you in life
I loved you in death
It was much too early
For you to take your last breath.

You promised you'd never leave me
And I'm broken now your gone
I'd give almost anything
To have you home.

To wrap your arms around me
To fix the brokenness inside
But you left me in this in-between
When you crossed the great divide.

I miss you with each breath I take
I miss you more than words
I miss the smiles upon your face
And the words I never even heard.

Will there ever come a day
When the hurt in me subsides?
Will the emptiness inside myself
Be with me all my life?

Mourning you is easy
Because missing you is tough
My heart hurts so bad
Because our love wasn't enough

To help you fight your demons
To take away your pain
And now that you are gone from us
We'll never be the same again.

But I'll hold onto your memory
All the good times that we shared
I'll pray that you are finally at peace
And that you know I always cared

Until we meet again some day
Across that great divide
I'll hold you in my heart
For the rest of my life.


Scheme XABA CDBD BXXX BEXE XXXX FXXC BGXG XXXX BHXH FEXC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Tetractys  (28%)
Etheree  (28%)
Metre 111 1110 110 1010 11101 11101 111110 1111111 11011011 0110111 11110 1111 1111011 110101 111101001 1110101 11111111 111111 11010111 001110101 1110101 1010101 10100011 111111 101110 0110111 11111 011011001 1111110 110111 01111111 11010101 111101100 1011111 1111110011 0111111 01110111 011101 111011 101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,108
Words 243
Sentences 9
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

I lost my brother last week and this is my poem to him. These are the words I would probably say if I could see him again.

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Written on February 14, 2022

Submitted by angelac.72380 on February 14, 2022

Modified on March 29, 2023

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