Analysis of Returns on Love



See a twinkle in your eye.. let me sing you a lullaby
when you rest here in my arms taking comfort from life's harms

You are safe when with me,  minds - bodies, mingling spiritually
Do you feel his guiding hand, leading you to a strange land?
Where angels and love abound, past and hurt are thrown down.

Fear cannot be where love is near.... only illusions do appear.
Seem they real or recognized false, is in your hands and do have costs...

Pay the tax on what is due, not past wages demanded of you.
For surely if you pay the past, the employment of such labor will last.

Rightly so if you pay love, angels are employed above...
Tax due here is easily paid, returns on love are always made.


Scheme XX XXX XX XX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 10100111111010 11110111010111 11111111010010000 11111011011011 1100101101111 1101111110010101 111110110110111 1011111111001011 110111010010111011 10111111010101 111110010111111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 682
Words 132
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 48
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on January 17, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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