Analysis of Never, Not Yet
(In honor of October being National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.)
Your words are caustic
Your eyes are fire
You claim love
It burns only as desire
What was once tomorrow
Can only be today
Only a moment
Disguised as someone, some way
A soft look behind me
A pause
A wonder of regret
But no
Never
Never, not yet
| Scheme | X XA XA BC XC XXD BAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (53%) |
| Metre | 0101010101000101000101 11110 11110 111 11101010 11101 110101 10010 011111 011011 01 010101 11 10 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 322 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
About this poem
There can be a moment an abused spouse or partner realizes their loved one is not going to change. Will they have the strength to leave them?
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