Analysis of Distance



I’m sick with longing,
With fever, I reach for hope
Its warmth burns me still


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11110 1101111 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 79
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 60
Words per stanza (avg) 15

About this poem

Living far from the person you like. Maybe one day they won't be so far away. That hope keeps the pain ever present. It's a bittersweet pill, but we swallow it anyway.

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Submitted on June 30, 2023

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