Analysis of Taking As You Do
we carry each other—burdens, ghosts, flying into resentments.
we’re doing it wrong, because it hurts, we’re doing it sideways.
loving us seemed easy, inconsequential; lately, I’ve noticed
how we love each other: should I notice—the love, the effort,
every grunion? I see how I cater to you. I see how you receive
me. I recognize you demanding of me my habits, expecting
certain rites and rituals—seated, receiving, full of holes and
arrogant inconsistencies—should I notice myself showing
affection? affection should flow unnoticed. I imagine a
scientist suggesting nothing should be automatic, unnoticed.
as of lately, my efforts are with notation, reflecting as I
motion—I realize being a good friend becomes
self-consciousness. in loving you, I am made to feel fretted; in
agonizing, I sense, you don’t sense, nor care, taking as you do.
Scheme | ABCDEFGFHIJKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101011001010 01011011101011 101110001010110 111110111001010 1001011111011111101 1110101011110010 1010100100101110 10001001110110 0100101101010100 1000101011010010 11101101101001011 101101001101 1100010111111100 1000111111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 872 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 666 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
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