Analysis of FIELDS
LizaBella Stephenson 1957 (Harlingen)
Where are we going
I ask my love
For a walk
She tells me
And I smile
At this new adventure
This odyssey she will take me on
I gaze at the sleek fineness of her skin
The dark eloquence of her eyes
She takes my hand in hers
And we walk, her and I
Through overgrown and lush fields
Fertile and fragrant
The green growth strokes our thighs as we walk
I feel the warm graciousness of the sun on my back
And I want to pull my lover down
Here, in the brilliant and perfumed paradise
And linger
Down amongst this ambrosial softness
And place honeyed smooth kisses
Upon the tender arch at her throat
But I continue to walk with her
This woman who has so totally captured my heart
Here, she says and pulls me gently down beside her
I feel the warm sweet breezes playing with my face and neck
You must let me go, she tells me
And I feel a deep quaking in my soul
How can I let go of this woman?
As much a part of my heart
As the veins that run through it
If I let her go
This love of mine
Who will I be?
As long and as tightly as I have held on to her
I can't, I won't
Please don't ask this of me
I ask no more of you, she answers
Than I ask of myself
I reach for her hands
But now they are fragile and weak
The silky smoothness that was her voice
Is husky, harsh and a wound to my ears, heart and my soul
I look into my love's face
And it is a face of illness, pain and suffering
Eyes now dull and lusterless
The winds have changed
Glacial, frigid and cutting
The sky, dark and ominous
The grasses in which we sit
Are dry and jagged and bruise my skin
I look away across the fields in which we sit
And I am full of anguish, desolation and regrets
I love you, she says, I always will
I feel warmth upon my back
And it is bright again
The grasses are soft with sympathy and forgiving
The sun is out again, I turn to tell her
But she is gone
A trick of light
Or a figment of my imagination?
I lift myself to my feet
And begin to move forward
Head up, eyes on the horizon
It's what she would have wanted
And it's what I will give her...
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 1111 101 111 011 111010 110011111 111011101 01100101 111100 011001 101011 10010 0111101111 1101100101111 011111101 1001000110 010 101101010 011110 010101101 110101110 1101111001011 111011101010 11011101011101 11111111 0110110011 111111110 1101111 1011111 11101 1111 1111 1101101111110 1111 111111 111111110 11111 11101 11111001 010101101 11010011111011 1101111 0110111010100 11101 0111 1010010 0110100 0100111 11010111 110101010111 0111110010001 11111111 1110111 011101 0101111000010 01110111110 1111 0111 1010110010 111111 0011110 11110010 1111110 0111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,987 |
Words | 424 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 23, 22, 19, 1 |
Lines Amount | 65 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 393 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
About this poem
Loss and Heartache
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Written on October 03, 1957
Submitted by practicingzen on August 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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