Analysis of I Wasn't Looking



I Wasn't Looking
By Donald James Kirby
Nothing can change my mind about you,
I'm so caught up in this love anew.
I know it's forever and you're here to stay,
I know you will see me through every day.
Though dreams drift by I never seem to forget,
I still look back to the day we met.
And I reminisce the look in your eyes,
The day when your love took me by surprise.
I Wasn't Looking and my defenses were down,
And today I find you in your wedding gown.
I Wasn't Looking-To love I was blind,
And now you've got me going out of my mind.
I said I'd never be anyone's fool again,
Yet so easily to your love I did give in.
The magic of your touch just melted my heart,
Somehow Love found a place to Start.
I Wasn't Looking-To fill the void,
where lost love had left me-so paranoid.
I Wasn't Looking-for someone at all,
Yet so suddenly, to your Love-I did fall.


Scheme ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKKLLMM
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 110110 101111011 111101101 11101001111 11111111001 11111101101 111110111 010101011 0111111101 110100101001 00111101101 1101011111 01111101111 11110110101 111001111110 01011111011 1110111 110101101 111111110 110101111 11100111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 854
Words 170
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 22
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 650
Words per stanza (avg) 170
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Submitted by ponyboy_c on January 30, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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