Analysis of Dying Love
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
After the storm, the rumble
Of thunder fades,
Replaced by the whisper
Of raindrops on rooftops.
I am hanging on to the words
That slipped from your lips
Like petals falling
From a dying flower.
The world spins on,
Oblivious
To the pieces of me scattered
Across this silent room.
In this shattered mirror,
I catch glimpses of a love
That once burned
So fiercely.
But now,
Only embers remain,
Unable to ignite the flame
That once consumed us whole.
I trace the lines of your absence,
The empty spaces
Between our bodies,
And wonder if we were ever really there.
I am left adrift, lost
In the vastness of this empty ocean,
Where the waves of longing
Crash upon my mind.
But even in this darkness,
I find solace,
Because I am still
The writer of my own story.
Scheme | XXAX XXBA XCXX AXXD XXXX XXXX XXBX CCXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010 1101 11010 1111 11101101 11111 11010 101010 0111 0100 10101110 011101 011010 1110101 111 110 11 101001 01010101 110111 11011110 01010 011010 01011010101 111011 0010111010 101110 10111 1100110 1110 01111 01011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 772 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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