Analysis of How



How do you love a person
Who is no longer there to love?
How do you take in all the pain
When your heart was taken in vein?

How do you get up each day
When there was never any night?
How do you escape the shadow
When there is no hope for you in sight?

How did you take my love for you
And toss it away without a glance?
How did I make you hate me
Now with you I have no chance.
How do you let a damaged heart heal
When the scars are permanent, they are sealed.

How do you find your way
To feeling life again?
When the beating of my heart
Stopped beating when you walked away?

How do you say I love you
When your love for me isn't true?
How did I let you go,how can I say goodbye?
My only real happiness was gone within the blink of an eye.
I know there will be no other
For my soul died with you
Please always remember
I still love you that much I hope know is true.


Scheme XXAA BCXC DEXEXX BXXB DDFFGDGD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010 11110111 11110101 11111001 1111111 11110101 1110101 111111101 11111111 011010101 1111111 1111111 111101011 1011100111 111111 110101 1010111 11011101 1111111 11111101 1111111111 1101100110101111 11111110 111111 11010 11111111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 841
Words 187
Sentences 13
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6, 4, 8
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted by kayla_j on June 11, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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