Analysis of If I told you that I loved you, you would probably run a mile

Richard Daish 1949 (DocPenfro)



I wanted to whisper, "I love you",
I wanted to say it - I tried.
I wanted to shout it out loudly,
So I screamed it, in silence, inside.

I wanted to hold you for ever,
I wanted to be by your side.
I wanted to hold you together,
But you cut me, so deeply: I cried.

I wanted to know you much better,
I wanted so hard to explain,
But the words crashed down like a landslide
Through the floods of my bitter-sweet pain.

I know always that I'll love you
You showed me what depths could pertain.
Your love was so sweet and so perfect;
I can never love another again.


Scheme ABXB CBCB CDBD ADXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 110110111 11011111 110111110 111101001 110111110 11011111 110111010 111111011 110111110 11011101 10111101 101111011 1111111 11111101 111110101 1110101001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 553
Words 114
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 28

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Submitted by Richard1506 on August 23, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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