Analysis of Oh to love the one you deserve



This was meant to be a love poem, full of jollity,
To blame is my own laxity and your betrayal

To fight you have to dirty yourself, and
To be hurt you must love

Now these lights blind my tear-filled eyes,
reminiscing a faint moment when we both felt the same

You chose his scars to my liniment,
His veiled lies to my naked truth

I warned us of the spear of despair slicing our hearts,
but the spear never reached your chest

For love without hopes and expectations,
is but a gift a cheater imparts on themselves

You left me, to return to the one
 you seeked refuge from

Composed of emptiness, my mind sprinting through
the labyrinth of doubt and pain

With a tempest within me, crestfallen,
hope is all there was

Longing like the dawn for the sun,
I had had too much of a sweet poison

Held captive by my mind, when my thoughts had just unlocked my cuffs,
I allowed you to fasten my padlocks

Woe to your love that doesn't last,
now I am too incomplete to give someone my all

I can cry and blame you for hours
but the truth is I wasn't him,
If I was him I would've pestered you to death like him
If I was him I would've controlled you to dependence like him
If I was him I would've betrayed you to insanity like him
If I was him I would've played with you to fatigue like him
And If I was like him I would've loved you so fake like him

Fleeing from the shadows of my past,
with darkness as my only abode

you merely said the words and I meant it
pure, it was, which I'll preserve

Oh to love the one you deserve,
Oh to love the one you deserve.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111110110111 1111110001010 1111110010 111111 11111111 0100110111101 1111111 11111101 11110110110101 10110111 110110010 110101001101 111101101 11101 01110011101 0101101 101001110 11111 10101101 1111110110 110111111110111 101111011 11111101 111100111111 111011110 10111101 11111101011111 1111110011101011 11111100111010011 111111011110111 011111110111111 10101111 110111001 1101010111 1111101 11101101 11101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,504
Words 307
Sentences 1
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 7, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 75
Words per stanza (avg) 19

About this poem

This is my first poem. It is based on my experience. I might've used some clichés or weak words but this was written in one sleepless night and I thought it's worth publishing. There's no rhyme scheme. It's free verse.

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Submitted by poetish_ly on June 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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