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 |
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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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