Analysis of Love To Recompose



If you cut it up in pieces,
  will you miss the whole unseen

Its DNA in tatters,
 and soul now left the scene

In your search for understanding
 do your eyes burn hot and fry

From visions tightly woven,
 —whose knots you must untie

When your world is brought to rubble,
  with its remnants cast about

Will you try to re-inflate balloons,
  whose air has long blown out

But tomorrow there’s a sunrise,
  and the next day after that

With not one question you need ask,
  to bring the daylight back

And once you learn this secret,
  now at rest upon your nose

Your mind will free with spirit joined,
 —their love to recompose

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)


Scheme AB XB XC XC XD XD XX XX XX XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111010 1110101 111010 011101 0111010 1111101 1101010 111101 11111110 1110101 111110101 111111 101101 0011101 11110111 11011 0111110 1110111 11111101 1111 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 643
Words 118
Sentences 1
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 46
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 10, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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