Analysis of How Long



How Long
By Nancy Rodriquez

How long, my Love, until we meet again?
The waiting is hard for me to bear,
Until we can address the pain,
and train our hearts to care,
Six months have gone by, and I am exhausted,
from crying and worry too,
To win your heart again, would be awesome,
and to earn your trust in all I do,
I would want you to do the same,
and the past would stay in the past,
neither of us sharing any more blame,
I know then our love will last,
We could feel whole again,
and grow as couples are supposed to,
I have had enough of the pain,
I want to resume loving you.


Scheme XX ABCBXDXDEFEFADCD
Poetic Form
Metre 11 110010 1111011101 010111111 0111101 0110111 11111011010 1100101 1111011110 011110111 11111101 00111001 1011101011 11110111 111101 011101011 11101101 11101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 580
Words 135
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 16
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 221
Words per stanza (avg) 60

About this poem

wondering and hoping

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Written on March 21, 2023

Submitted by txpoet65 on March 21, 2023

Modified on April 20, 2023

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Nancy Rodriquez

I have been writing poetry since I was 14 years old. I am now 57. I live in Fort Worth, Texas. I plan to have two children's books published by the Summer of 2023. "Elroy the Elephant, and Charlie the Squirrel. Both have my poetry in them. more…

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