Analysis of My Infatuation With You, Love
I have never loved.
It didn't use to be a problem,
That my heart was in ice gloved.
But now my house has frozen, become an emblem
Of my fire which is failing.
Forever, I said, the heat will never go flat,
I thought that my hearth was self-warming.
Maybe I lied, told myself that,
Because being lonely is better than being undeserving,
Better than loss.
Maybe it was because the fire caught scent of cedar,
Tired of scraps, mold, and moss.
Like how once you first feel touch, you can't live without it - you need her.
How I wished you could hear me from across
This wall I built; I know fantasy is not what you are, Love.
If only I could be my own heat.
Would I be less of a burden to you, of
Blazing fire, sweet?
Would I instead just enjoy your warmth and the sparks thereof?
Not need it so, old dove?
Scheme | ABABC DCDCE FEFEG HGHGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11101 110111010 1111011 111111001110 11101110 010110111011 111111110 1011111 011010110110010 1011 10110101011110 1011101 1111111111011110 1111111101 111111100111111 110111111 11111010111 10101 1101101110011 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 809 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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