Analysis of To a first love



Dear Dear Lover,
who am I, but who I am with you?
I am afraid
I’ve never known anything but what I’ve compared to you. To you
To you I’ve given everything, but withheld
Everything
For fear, fear is my mistress
My unwilling well to which I’ve poured
My Being,
My Soul,
My possibility.
I am sorry.
Find it in you to Forgive me
what I cannot myself.
All of the universe
given away
to nothing, when it should have
been yours.
It’s what I meant,
But I could not bring myself
To give.
I wish I was, but I fear I never
was, at all.
Just a waste,
of the universe.


Scheme ABCBDEFGEHIIIJKLMNOJPAQRK
Poetic Form Tetractys  (44%)
Metre 1110 111111111 1101 110110111011111 1111010101 10 1111110 101011111 110 11 10100 1110 11011011 11101 11010 1001 1101111 11 1111 111111 11 1111111110 111 101 1010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 568
Words 126
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 419
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Written on October 28, 2023

Submitted by cetaxe01 on October 28, 2023

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