Analysis of Beckoning Mists
I searched the rolling mists where you once stood and called your name.
In phantom guise you vanished and left me
cloaked in muted tears when no answer came.
Shy fingers probed their depths but there was naught to touch, to hold.
Only pearl-grey drops gloved my hands,
their caress a fleeting comfort, yet oh, so cold!
Although engulfed I was not closed or bound, more likely lured.
This silent siren beckoned in playful pattern,
Moved by passionate, intimacy and thirst, her role secured.
As one beguiled I embraced the trembling mists which I no longer feared.
In quick-sand manner they wrapped me tight and we became as one.
So I, too, disappeared.
Scheme | AXA BXB CXC DXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111110111 0101110011 1010111101 11011111111111 10111111 101010101111 1011111111101 110101001010 111001000010101 110110101001111101 011101111010111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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