Analysis of Touch - Sometimes

Frank Becker 1946 (Chicago, Illinois)



Such a simple yet important, and sometimes rare, sense!
Touch is so easy to give and yet so difficult to get sometimes.

Sometimes...
For me, the craving time is now and sometimes the past few years.

Do you crave it often?
 - Sometimes?

I want to touch you.
I want you to touch me.


Scheme xa Ax xA xx
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101000111 11110110111001101 01 110101110010111 111110 01 11111 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 299
Words 68
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 14

About this poem

Physical touch is one of the five "love languages" and also one of my two love languages.

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Written on January 01, 2020

Submitted by 02.capable.program on February 22, 2024

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Frank Becker

Chicago is my home town and I love its architecture, lakefront, and people. Three wonderful children and one happy grandchild. I've always liked science and I've been lucky enough to have worked in hospital laboratories most of my life and am presently semi-retired. more…

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