Analysis of Combing Her Hair
With each stroke of the brush
luxurious tracings held serenely;
rhythmical extensions of an ageless gesture become a subtle reprimand
to actions hurried without awareness.
It seemed she heard
the transcendent while
twilight melded from opal to violet;
indifferent to my nearness,
oblivious to my presence.
As if a visionary had murmured something
worth dying for but not too lofty to share.
A sublime smile Leonardo captured,
and only women possess,
purled across her mouth with an
intimacy of the sacred.
She rose,
pulled down blinds,
spoke words like lute notes in amber,
floated gently as a sunset moth
onto the pillow, where our heads lay
pressed together, even though I felt
forlorn, still, not understanding what is
surely inexplicable.
Scheme | XXXA BXXAX XX BXXX XXXXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 0100110100 10101110100101010 1101001010 1111 00101 1101101100 010111 01001110 11010011010 11011111011 001101010 0101001 1010111 10001010 11 111 11111010 10101011 1001011011 101010111 011101011 100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 748 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 2, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
Honoring my late wife.
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