Analysis of Quiet exchange of faces…
After forty minutes of
Catch-up talk.
We pause, on this bench.
Sun shining in late March.
Cardinal heralds at work.
With water-pipe clarity of song.
Neither speaks.
Just looking, one to the other.
Studying features of face.
Valiantly retained over the years.
Laughter, tears
And all that we shared
As a couple, an item.
Back in those college years.
Never quite getting down
To the rapt consummation.
And where are you living now?
Chicago, husband, three kids.
That must be nice.
Here visiting relatives.
And me, oh well, Barb
Passed away three years back.
Son Jack in the Marines.
And posted.
I Retired from C.A. work
When Barb got sick.
Getting out more now.
Ah, Ginny how did this happen?
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMJNOPQRSTUVWEXPO |
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Metre | 1010101 111 11111 110011 1001011 110110011 101 11011010 1001011 100011001 101 01111 1010110 101101 101101 101010 0111101 011011 1111 1100100 01111 101111 110001 010 101111 1111 10111 11011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 536 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Written on March 06, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 06, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on March 06, 2023
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