Analysis of Sexual Frustration



This sexuality is killing me
My love is work without a living wage.
'Twas more joy in lonesome virginity?
Or is content found in marriage's cage?
I want and crave what only she can give
But desperation is what kills romance.
Oh! does my lust make it so hard to live!
Tantalus grasping for fruit on the branch.
If only masturbation was the cure
Instead of giving me such mild relief
Exasperates my need, makes you a lure
On which I've hooked my ocean depths of grief.
What is one to do with temptations fruit?
I've a gun loaded, but 'tis myself I shoot.


Scheme ABABCDEFGHGHII
Poetic Form
Metre 101001101 1111010101 1110100100 11101011 1101110111 101011101 1111111111 1001011101 110010101 0111011101 1111101 1111110111 1111110101 1011011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 552
Words 112
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 432
Words per stanza (avg) 104

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Lines composed when she wasn't in the mood.

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