Analysis of If only love had a little time



If only love had a little time
Our hearts would've still known warmth.
I have had taken your hand in mine
And us, the stars and the sky,
would have been my little heaven.
My heart would have still retained its sanity,
Had you kept it company
You for you, and me for me,
And still together, we'd have been us.
If only love had a little time.

Empty pages in the night sky,
Fill me up with memories or 'us'.
The thought of your warm, agile kisses,
still send my heart into a flutter.
Like dried turmeric on my hand,
comes back to its life in yellow.
A tiny recollection of you ,
Still paints my heart in saffron
Maybe being forgetful would've helped,
If only love had a little time.

We'd have spent the night writing poems,
And fools like us would've spent more nights listening to them.
Our hearts would've remained full in emptiness,
Had we gone out looking for the right in wrong.
Ours would have been the great love story.
Had you stayed alongside me.
What a wondrous act of kindness it would've been,
even in your absence your glory would've prevailed,
If only love had a little time.

Each one of us would have remained a little blessed,
If only love had a little time. (×2 )


Scheme AxxbcdddeA bexxxxxcxA xxexddxxA xa
Poetic Form
Metre 110110101 10110111 111101101 0101001 11111010 11111011100 1111100 1110111 010101111 110110101 10100011 111110011 011111010 111101010 111111 11111010 01001011 1111010 1010010101 110110101 111011010 01111011110011 101100110100 11111010101 1011101110 1110111 101011101101 1001101101001 110110101 111111010101 110110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,183
Words 252
Sentences 15
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 10, 10, 9, 2
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 228
Words per stanza (avg) 56

About this poem

It's a relatable one where there comes a phase in love where the flashbacks remains in our heart and cognitive thoughts remain constant.

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Written on July 30, 2022

Submitted by imabrawny23 on July 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Prabesh Yadav

I am a comprehensible guy expressing my feelings and emotions within the text. If there is no barrier within the languages, then I would love to write in both English and Nepali languages. If you are chasing your dreams of being a writer, you must spread readiness and confidence inside you. I am here for a motive to reveal melancholic thoughts flowing from my heart and rolling out positivity. Thank you. more…

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