Analysis of The Promise to Open a Book



If ever there was a dream so pure,
In my mind you will forever endure.
Looking across the vastness of this sea,
Lost deep in the mists you may always be.

Found your heart one day within a stone,
Nestled in the sands of time all alone.
Touched you and held you feeling your book,
As I searched and felt you, I opened for a look.

Your days in the past were some light and some dark,
Each chapter read so deeply, I caressed every mark.
You pushed and you pulled, my heart felt every tug,
Moments spent reading, my heart against yours felt snug.

Had I really found a love so divine,
It tangled and tightened pulling deep into mine.
My fingers pressed intensely into each page,
The words tore through me, I felt so amazed.

Now I turn this page and find it is blank as I stare,
The strokes of my pen I write with profound care.
Captive of your book I forever will be,
I promise our pages will come deep from in me.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF GGXX HHBB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (80%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 110110111 0111101001 1001010111 110011111 111110101 1000111101 110111011 111011110101 11001011011 11011101011001 110111111001 101101101111 1110101101 110010101011 11010100111 0111111101 1111101111111 01111111011 10111101011 1101010111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 912
Words 201
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Written on November 24, 2023

Submitted by ChrisMorganroth on November 24, 2023

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