Analysis of the fall
Spread out in the air
Feathers glide behind me
Soaring without a care
Out of reach
Or so I thought
But life has cruel lessons
That it must teach
You charmed me down to Earth
With your enchanting blue eyes
I lept from grace
when I saw your face
I was done for
A beauty like none before
I let your delicate fingers slide
Over my cold skin
That was suddenly warm
But of course you had to leave me
How I could not forsee
The outcome, I do not know
You were gone, six feet under
No longer did you sing
My pain it roared like thunder
My love, my love.
Gone you are
To Heaven I could not return
To Hell, I must never go
But what is a life worth living,
if not lived within your arms?
I fit being above your body
Wings in a protective stance
And I shall stand here for eternity
As you will rot in yours
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001 101011 100101 111 1111 1111010 1111 111111 1101011 1111 11111 1111 0101101 111100101 10111 111001 11111111 111101 011111 1011110 110111 1111110 1111 111 11011101 1111101 11101110 1110111 111001110 1000101 0111110100 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 624 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 165 |
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Submitted on November 01, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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