Analysis of There's a poem for that
The way you look away at the moment your heart
creaks open, ever so slightly, the brass door chain
remains chained, a peek of light and then darkness.
There's a poem for that.
The way you immediately fall asleep without returning
the favor, without so much as a soft kiss goodnight,
as though your pillow is soaked in chloroform.
There's a poem for that.
The way you reply to a long text of mine expressing
fear about the future, about us, with just a thumbs-up
emoji, like a pilot signaling the ground crew.
There's a poem for that.
The way you are never wrong, never responsible,
always talking over me, shouting over me,
like you are on the sideline of an invisible football game.
There's a poem for that.
The way you refuse to go to couples therapy, even though
we have a stuffed silo of problems to work on, announcing,"our relationship doesn't need a referee."
There's a poem for that.
The way you are more concealing than revealing,
never telling the truth because you think it will
upset me and so you lie. Again, again, and again.
There's a poem for that.
This is that poem.
Scheme | xax B cxx B cxx B dex B xe B cda B x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101101011 110101100111 01101110110 101011 0110100010101010 010011110111 1111011010 101011 01101101111010 10101001111011 11010100011 101011 0111101100100 11010110101 11110111010011 101011 0110111110100101 1101101101111010101001 101011 011110101010 101001011111 01101110101001 101011 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,129 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
There is a poem in everything, most notably in relationships.
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Written on February 01, 2023
Submitted on March 22, 2023
Modified on May 02, 2023
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