Analysis of In Empty Arms I Longed



In the drunken stupor of lust,
I yield to pleasures, earthly and of flesh.
Luscious and beautiful in those moments I lose myself easily to the desires raging within.

Knowing well that on the morrow, again I go forth alone to battle the darkness that is the loneliness of the human condition known well by the many who call themselves single.

But I wane not, for in knowing my loneliness, I have learned myself.

And drunkenly I yet court the very idea that she is still out there, waiting for me, the one...


Scheme XXX X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 00101011 1111010011 1001000110111100100101001 1011101001111011100101101001010010111010110110 1111101011001111 01111010010111111101101
Characters 501
Words 93
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 67
Words per line (avg) 16
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

Remembrances of loneliness and the need to feel loved. And yet yielding to base needs to momentarily quell the feelings of loneliness.

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Written on June 22, 2014

Submitted by addischoneska on July 23, 2021

Modified on April 04, 2023

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