Analysis of Love's Eternal Question
In love's embrace, do we find truth or guise?
A chemical dance or a cosmic spark?
Does passion's flame in mortal hearts arise,
Or mere illusion in the endless dark?
Does love's sweet melody, so tender, true,
Reside in neurons firing in our brain?
Or does it spring from depths we can't construe,
A force beyond what science can explain?
Yet in the whispers of the soul's refrain,
In tender touch and in the lover's gaze,
There lies a mystery we can't restrain,
A truth that defies reason's measured maze.
So let us ponder, in this endless quest,
If love's pure essence dwells in hearts at rest.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD DEDE FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111111 0100110101 111010101 1101000101 1111001101 01010100101 1111111101 0101110101 1001010101 0101000101 1101001101 011011101 1111001101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
In the poetic dance of inquiry, 'Love's Eternal Question' delves into the essence of affection. Is love a chemical reaction or a celestial spark? This sonnet contemplates the mysteries of love, exploring the cosmic and cerebral facets of this ageless emotion.
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