Analysis of Destiny

Otis Cotton 1983 (HARLEM NY)



If Loving you was My philosophy
 I'd theorize for hours 101 million reasons why you should be on top of me
 but it's more than in your moan
 it's in your skin tone
 your bone structure
it's as if God plucked you from the tree of Life
 ordained you to be my wife
 to navigate through this life of pain
strife  and misery
to know that everything will be all right your lips glisten with the sweat from your cheeks
your forehead damp
my arms around your hips as you sway
 I love the way that we play when you lay down flat back bent arched
 yeah I'm loving that.
 The chemistry allows us to be free
 we enter into our own dimension
 our own Galaxy
I know that you were meant for me
the way that you moan every time I touch you and that special place
 the way that you moan every time
 I look into your face
 the way that you own
every special crevice and special place
this is living
 inside of you I am alive.


Scheme AABBCDDEAFGHIJAKAALMLBLNO
Poetic Form Tetractys  (32%)
Metre 1101110100 110110101011111111 1111011 10111 1110 11111110111 0111111 11011111 10100 1111011111110101111 1101 110111111 110111111111111 11101 0100011111 11001101010 101100 11110111 01111100111101101 011111001 110111 01111 10010100101 1110 01111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 896
Words 180
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 705
Words per stanza (avg) 181

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A poem from one lover to another lovet

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Written on August 02, 2021

Submitted by itsotiscotton on August 02, 2021

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Otis Cotton

Otis cotton is a singer actor performance artist and teacher living in New York City. He can be seen acting on various television shows and also was in the Broadway play Holler if you hear me. more…

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