Analysis of BEFORE THE LOVE
Who were you before
How did you love
Did you sing your songs of pain and love
Did you hope the heavens heard your pleas
Did you listened for a heartbeat drifting among the stars
You never heard the songs calling back for you
You never saw me in the stars above
You never felt the love
Who were you before love
Who were you before love
Who was I before
How did I love
I sang the songs of pain and love
I hoped the heavens heard my pleas
I listened for a heartbeat drifting among the stars
I never heard your songs calling for me
I never saw you in the stars above
I never felt your love
Who were you before love
Who was I before love
Who have we become
We can see the stars, feel the heavens
Your songs call me to your heartbeat
Your songs of pain and love are me
The heavens have answered our pleas
I will always hear your songs calling for me
I will always see you in the stars
I will always feel your love.
Who were you before love
Who was I before your love
Who were we before the love
| Scheme | abbcdxbb BB abbcdebb Bb xxxecedb Bbb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 1111 111111101 111010111 1110101100101 11010110111 1101100101 110101 101011 101011 11101 1111 11011101 11010111 110101100101 1101111011 1101100101 110111 101011 111011 11101 111011010 1111111 11110111 010110101 1111111011 11111001 111111 101011 1110111 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 993 |
| Words | 209 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 2, 8, 2, 8, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Written on May 30, 2022
Submitted by Chrismo on August 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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