Analysis of Katherine All Over

Elliot Stevenson 1994 (Illinois)



Cute little brunette with a yellow bra sprawled
over my duvet in the amber sunlight. My
t shirt never looked as good as it did floating
around her frame like a soft orbit
around a lush pale planet. Her hair was everywhere, confetti
on my carpet. Katherine all over.
Her breasts drench my face, soft fleshy love. I
can’t not stare directly into the neutron star at the center of her soul. Eyes be damned if she isn’t the last thing I see. Katherine all over.
Lips like flower petals grace the side of my ear, as a whisper flutters through them, soft like cotton. Her warm breath spins around in my  brain. Her words feel like electricity, crackling and sparkling and catching fire. Flames could consume me before I’d leave her side.  Katherine all over.


Scheme ABCDEFBFF
Poetic Form
Metre 11001101011 1011001011 111011111110 010110110 010111001110010 1110100110 0111111011 11101001011101010111111101111100110 11101010111110101011111001110101101110100100100101011011011101100110
Characters 759
Words 139
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 66
Words per line (avg) 15
Letters per stanza (avg) 594
Words per stanza (avg) 138

About this poem

This free verse poem was written with the grace of hindsight, lamenting a long lost love.

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Written on March 12, 2022

Submitted by lisas.21149 on March 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Elliot Stevenson

Elliot Stevenson is an American poet and fiction writer whose works focus on love, loss, change, and time. more…

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