Analysis of an excerpt from "Orions Love Letters"



shes relaxed
a little drunk again
and looking for the stars
so she can leave here
tonight
and sleep like a sunset
after a kiss from the sea
& we'll watch the constellations ripple
in the waves
to form a cosmic sequel
to the dawn of
you
and
me

("never close your eyes," he begged her."that
way i can swim deep into your mind and paint
you a picture so you can see that you've been
crawling all over inside of mine." At this
they were childly spun together with a kiss.)


Scheme AXXXXXBCXCXXXB AXXDD
Poetic Form
Metre 101 010101 010101 11111 01 01101 1001101 11001010 001 1101010 1011 1 0 1 10111111 11111011101 10101111111 10110011111 1011010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 450
Words 96
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 14, 5
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 182
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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