Analysis of Flicker
Rachelle Coetzee 2003 (Pretoria)
I fell in love.
I fell in love with that mischievous smile you love to flaunt.
I fell in love with those eyes that hold earthquakes strong enough to bring mountains to their knees.
I fell in love with the way my name sounds rolling off your tongue.
But I need to learn that I can't make homes out of humans,
and that this spark is not a fire meant to keep me warm,
that even though it felt like your arms were walls meant to protect me from my own internal storms,
you aren't mine.
So even though my mind is littered with you
and you've rooted yourself deep into everything single aspect of my life
I need to accept that the flicker of emotion in your hazel eyes
was merely my mind playing tricks on me,
making me hope
That you could be in love with me too.
Scheme | XXXX XXXX AXXXX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 11011110011111 11011111111011110111 110110111110111 11111111111110 01111101011111 11011111101110111110101 1101 11011111011 01100110110101111 111011010101001101 1101110111 1011 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 768 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
About this poem
This poem is about falling in love with someone who isn't meant to be yours.
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Written on January 04, 2022
Submitted by rachellecoetzee on June 25, 2022
Modified on March 26, 2023
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