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Rhyming Poems · Love

Arrivals

by The QuillOak Editors

1I've learned the airport by its doors:

2the one where you go through, the one

3where, days or weeks or months from now,

4you'll walk back out into the sun.

5I hate the first. I've made my peace.

6I live for that one gate, and then

7the moment when I see your face

8and the clock in me starts up again.

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Quick facts

Poem
Arrivals
Poet
The QuillOak Editors
Length
8 lines
Form
Rhyming Poems, Lyric Poem
Themes
Love, For Him, Missing You

Craft notes

How this poem works

Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.

Shape
8 lines · 2 quatrains
End rhyme
ABCB in every stanza — ballad rhyme — only lines 2 and 4 chime.
Line length
Consistent with long metre. Four eight-syllable lines (8.8.8.8), the hymn stanza's longer cousin.
The poem’s silhouette — approximate syllables per line, measured from the text above. Even bars mean a measured line; ragged bars mean the poem sets its own widths.

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The QuillOak Editorstoday
Source record
QuillOak originalArrivals, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
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Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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Editorial handling
Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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