Analysis of Longing Befriends
Can you ever make love
what you want it to be
Can a heart once broken
become whole at the end
Can the feelings you wished for
unleash and be free
Can the joy that alludes you
—with longing befriend
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)
Scheme | XA XB XA XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 111111 101110 011101 1010111 01011 1011011 11001 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 237 |
Words | 44 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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