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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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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