Analysis of Love
Love turns mere water into wine
and earthly things become divine.
Swallowing hurt and hatred up
it sweetens the bitterest cup.
Love satisfies the deepest thirst
and always puts its’ loved one first.
It does not hate, but seeks to please,
and even loves its enemies.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110011 01010101 10010101 11001001 1100101 0111111 11111111 01011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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