Analysis of Shallow Love
Tip-toed talking
On tangled tightropes
Of half truths and
Broken smiles.
Restless pacing,
Keeping rhythm with the
Thoughts that are
Racing
With how fast my body
Is shaking in tempo.
Catastrophic epiphanies,
Catatonic memories,
Blank spaces lost to time
And I am apathetic
At best.
Reckless behavior
Becomes survivalism
In a world where
Numbness
Is the only escapism
That satisfies the
Broken Heart
And eases the
Fractured Mind.
Let your judgements
Fall around me,
I am no stranger
To loneliness.
I have heard the
Call of the Void
And followed his despair
Into the blackened abyss,
Just to smile in his face
And remind him that
I know how to climb.
Lend me your tongue
So that I might
Speak
With a language
You can understand:
Hyperbolic apologies
Are not redemptive,
Complacency
Is not action,
And shallow love
Is no love
At all.
Scheme | ABCBADEAFGBBHIJKHLBMDNDOBFKBDPLBBQHRSTUVBWBXYYZ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 1101 1110 101 1010 101010 111 10 111110 11001 0101 010100 110111 011010 11 10010 011 0011 10 1010010 1100 101 0100 101 1110 1011 11110 1100 1110 1101 010101 0101001 111011 00111 11111 1111 1111 1 1010 1101 0100100 11010 0100 1110 0101 111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 47 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 671 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 143 |
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Written on April 11, 2022
Submitted by samanthas.80619 on April 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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