Analysis of LOVE’S END

James Ahmu 1953 (Auckland)



Every love evolves through stages
Passage through life, time and years it ages.
From the ecstatic, explosive and life changing start
Hearts once irrevocably joined, detach and drift apart.

Hard to believe, a love once so strong and true
Has lost the connection that once bound
An entity of one has become two
Their mutual loving eyes now not to be found.

After all the things vowed, said and done
When dreams and futures were forever in the sun
Echo’s of the once intense love still remain
It’s power and passion, like a dragon, has been slain

The pain of final separation and the end of a bond
Is always hard, filled with regrets and sorrow
 Just need to keep moving forward and beyond
 Searching for a new life, in a bright sunny tomorrow


Scheme AABB CDCD EEFF GHGH
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 100101110 1011101110 1001001001101 11010001010101 11010111101 110010111 1100111011 110010111111 101011101 110100010001 10101011101 1100101010111 01110010001101 1111101010 11111010001 1010110011001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 747
Words 140
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 148
Words per stanza (avg) 34

About this poem

I tend to write poems when a major event occurs in my life, that causes me to reflect. In this case, a break up of a relationship, at a few weeks afer its 24th year anniversary.

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Written on December 30, 2022

Submitted by Rockya53 on January 14, 2023

Modified on April 24, 2023

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