Analysis of I Wish I Could Write Poetry
I wish I could write poetry.
I wish I could write poetry so that I could explain the way your smile feels like sunlight
After spending a year underground
I wish I could write poetry so that I could describe how your laughter makes me feel like I’m drowning while breaking the surface at the same time
I wish I could write poetry so that I could express how I am always cold
But when you touch me, all of the ice melts away,
Reminding me that summer always returns
I wish I could write poetry so that I could define all of the reasons I want to stay by your side for the rest of my life
In any way you will let me
I wish I could write poetry so that I could tell you that you are my soulmate without ever having to say those words
Because I am a coward.
And I am not a poet.
But I love you.
And if I could,
I would write you poem after poem
Telling you all of the ways I love you
And all of the reasons I don’t think I could live without you
And all of the reasons I don’t want to
I wish I could write poetry so that you could know the way I feel
But I can’t
So instead I just smile at you and I hold your hand and I hope that it is enough
I wish I could write poetry
So that I could write it for you
Scheme | A xx x xxx xa x x x b xxbbb xx x Ab |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111100 111111001111010111111 10100110 11111100111101111011111101100101011 1111110011110111111 111111101101 0101110101 11111100111101110101111111101111 01011111 11111100111111111110110101111 0111010 0111010 1111 0111 1111101010 1011101111 011010111111011 0110101111 11111100111110111 111 101111110111101111101 11111100 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,219 |
Words | 275 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 2, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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