Analysis of How and Why
How and Why
how has this come to be?
I ask myself looking for reason
looking into his eyes
I find myself
how can I be there?
how could I ever face a night
or a day?
my age is upon me wilting
these fragile bones hold tight -
to life though my heart faints at his sight
maybe he is un-aware!
can he realize it in my shy stare?
I can feel the night falling
surly he will embrace me
hug my tired bones.
where will all these days lead?
I wonder will he remember the scarlet leaves
or the sun cutting through the frost
O' how he finds me in the darkness!
I pray he never loses me in the shadow
as the day crosses the morning bridge
will he still recall those bridges?
even as these bones ache with the thought
of leaving I can't go and leave him lonely
now in age I have this yearning that lingers.
but the urge is wasting away
taking me with it
it's too demanding yet inviting
my body worn but still warm with longing
how can I hold this stare in his eyes?
there is no defying time!
I'm grateful to had been held captive by his eyes
still, I don't know how or why.
Scheme | A BXCXDEFGEEDDGBXXXXXXXXXBXFXGGCXCA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 111111 11110110 100111 111 11111 11110101 101 11101110 110111 111111111 1011101 111010111 1110110 1011011 11101 111111 110110100101 10110101 111110010 11110101001 101100101 1111110 101111101 11011101110 10111110110 10111001 10111 110101010 1101111110 111111011 1110101 110111110111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,065 |
Words | 234 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 33 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 412 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
About this poem
Thinking of love of how and why we find ourselves in love.
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Written on January 06, 2022
Submitted by daisymay1950 on January 09, 2022
Modified on May 03, 2023
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