Analysis of Whispers of Desire
Violet Echo 1977 (IN)
Shhh, let’s not speak on what we feel
….it will become real. Words spoken under cover of a soft breath that burns with a yearning you can barely describe.
Shhh, let’s not pretend that what this is doesn’t scare you, keep you awake at night wondering what it would be like to touch my skin, smell my hair, feel my lips, feel me quiver. If you say you don’t then I will know that you’re a liar.
Shh, let’s not pretend that I am a desire you bury deep inside you because you’ve never been with a woman like me, a QUEEN like me, a warrior like me, a woman that knows what she brings to the table…..(can you hear my heart beating out of my chest, can you hear the crack in my voice)….a woman that knows how to make you want even more.
Shhh, what we are is unspeakable and I’m at a loss for words the moment you stare into my eyes.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 1101111010101011111010111001 111011111111110111100111111111111111111011111111111010 1110111100101101011011101101011011101001101011111101011111101111111010110101111111101 1111101000110111010110111 |
Characters | 854 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 125 |
Words per line (avg) | 33 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
About this poem
We all have people in our past that stirred something in us but too afraid to speak it into existence.
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