Analysis of Amethyst Eyes
I poured myself out onto you, ink on vellum, your
skin gravelly, your alluring purr as smooth as silk and
soft as velvet, but as you folded me in your arms, my words
were lost like cries in the wind. For once, in a long time, I looked
at you, truly looked at you. I looked past the thin sheen of sweat at your
brow, like the dew on the blades of brown grass in the hot summer mornings.
I looked past the spray of freckles that dusted the tops of your cheeks and the bridge
of your nose, the freckles you loathed so much when you were just a boy because they
reminded you of flecks of glitter. I looked past the blonde locks that ringed your face like a
golden halo. Your hair is longer now, than it was, when we were kids, but I doubt that even
now, you’d let me braid it. I looked past all the little details I’d noticed about you
when we were growing up, and now, I saw a man with amethyst eyes and a
longing washed over me like a wave, pulling me down with the undertow.
I long to know *this you* as I once knew you, so well, like the back
of my own hand. So, with salt and foam, sweat and ink and in
every sweeping wave, drag me into those lovely amethyst
eyes. If the eyes truly are the windows to the soul,
pour in like a light and flood on the floor. Show me
what you’ve become, because, while I easily
recognize your flesh and outer
appearance, I long to know
you deeper than looks
could ever go.
Scheme | A X X X A X X X B C X B D X C X X E E X D X D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011111 11001010111110 111011110101111 011100111001111 11101111110111111 11011011110011010 1110111011001111001 1110101111110101011 010111110111011111110 10101111011111101111110 111111111101001110011 1101010111011100100 10110110110111010 1111111111111101 11111110110100 1001011101110100 1101101010101 101010110111 11010111100 1011010 0101111 11011 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,453 |
Words | 316 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 23 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Written on 2016
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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