Analysis of Betrothal

JP. 1948 (United Kingdom)



If this knot be sealed with heaven’s wax
May troubles lift not your door’s latch
You will always have someone’s hand to hold
When you savour each minute though it were gold
You will drink from a cup overflowing with life
To covet this happiness beyond all strife
You will keep all the secrets you have never been told
Never sleeping on an argument unresolved
May you hold that space in a desolate mind
For the one true love that today you will find
As you share your dreams of what might be
With no need of a Shaman nor yet Parsee
May you live for the one for which you most care
On an Ocean of happiness that you both will share


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Poetic Form
Metre 111111101 11011111 11111111 1111101101 11110110011 11011000111 1111010111011 101011100001 11111001001 10111101111 111111111 1111010111 11110111111 1110110011111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 637
Words 126
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 504
Words per stanza (avg) 123
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