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 |
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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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