Analysis of Unrequieted

Ana Lawton 1957 (Havana)



You moved among the flowers; those that yielded to your touch you picked.
You held them in your hands and with your breath caressed them; their sweetness had you tricked.
You placed them carefully in water, thinking so to make them last.
And, for a time, they gave you pleasure, though that pleasure held not fast.
Now the garden's empty, save the one that will not yield.
She clings, deep-rooted, to the soil, bringing life back to the field.
She is lonely in her beauty.
At night, the dew is cold.
She tempts you to destroy her.
It's her strength that makes her bold.
And you so want to possess her.
She wants to be possessed.
But, you both know, everlasting beauty, left to grow, will prove to be the best.


Scheme AABBCCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010111011111 1110110111011110111 1111000101011111 0101111101110111 1010101011111 111101011011101 11100010 110111 1111010 1011101 01111010 111101 111101010111111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 712
Words 143
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 548
Words per stanza (avg) 131
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Written on May 10, 2023

Submitted by anaguiu57 on May 10, 2023

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