Analysis of Love Overcomes All

Manuel Santos, Jr 1973 (United States)



My chances run bare.
Footprints disappear.

Shade away the rusted kiss.
Years worth of closed eyes forces me to dismiss.

I hear you call but my heart walks on a sleepy cloud.
My soul screams out load.

The beginner is just an ultimate way of ending the frozen game.
Another power shrug, one last violent tug and it will be your final shame.

Tears in the rain can hide the truth of who I shall be.
Watch me turn into a great big forgiving tree.

Coming down once more from the free fall.
I'm not so sure I an survive this pain after all.

Purple sun warns me one last time.
I try feverishly to explain my heartfelt rhyme.

I saw you going up.
I smiled peacefully as I stayed softly on the singing ground.


Scheme XX AA XX BB CC DD EE XX
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 11011 101 1010101 11111101101 1111111110101 11111 001011110011100101 01010111100101111101 1001110111111 111010110101 101111011 1111110111101 10111111 11100101111 111101 111001111010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 683
Words 135
Sentences 16
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by emeraldsnow on June 22, 2021

Modified on April 22, 2023

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