Analysis of If You Love Me
If you love me you will accept me the way I am.
If I love you I will accept you the way you are.
Are you saying only you can define my love for you?
But you don’t accept me the way I am, so I guess you don’t love me.
If you love me you wouldn’t judge me.
If I love you I won’t judge you.
Aren’t you judging me by saying I’m judging you?
Apparently, your judgeship is higher ranking than mine.
If you love me you wouldn’t hurt my feelings.
If I love you I won’t hurt your feelings.
Are you saying I can only express my feelings if it doesn’t hurt yours?
It is clear we have different definitions of love.
Because . . .
If I love you I will accept you the way you are;
And I will expect you to do the same of me.
I will be judgmental, but I will not condemn;
And I will request that you be the same.
I may hurt your feelings, unintended;
but hope that we can explore and heal.
I may get my feelings hurt, too;
but hope that we can learn and grow.
Love is not a list of do’s and don’t’s,
or a catalog of expectations.
Love is treating others the same
as we should be treating ourselves.
Love is having the power to destroy
but never using it.
Scheme | xAbc cbbx ddxx x Acxexxbxdxex xx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110110111 1111110110111 11101011011111 11101101111111111 11111111 11111111 1011011101101 0100111101011 1111111110 1111111110 111011100111011111 1111110001011 01 1111110110111 011011110111 111010111101 0110111101 111110010 111110101 11111011 11111101 111011101 101001010 11101001 111110001 1110010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,237 |
Words | 262 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1, 12, 2 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
About this poem
People so often use "if you love me" expectations against others, without really applying those same expectations to themselves.
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