Analysis of DON’T LOVE ME SO
Don’t love me so
Don’t love me because I am unable to walk.
I live my life as beautiful as yours.
In fact, I love the way I live.
It is God’s Giving Power.
And I thank the Lord
And I will thank the Lord for the future.
Maybe I can’t walk, but I know in my mind
I will be somebody.
The things I have wanted are going to be there.
And I know one day
I will be great.
I will give.
I will be understanding, and most of all, Loving.
I am a handicapped with a lot of hope.
And I am living in a world that has no hope at all.
Only the people who are unable get hope
because they know how it feels
to be locked up in a wheelchair.
They know how it hurts to have people
looking at you and saying,
Look at that poor kid
Right in front of your face – like you can’t see or hear.
It makes you want to tell them off.
It doesn’t matter since they can’t understand
your marble talk.
One day a wind will come and the Hand of God will
touch the handicapped and all will be saved.
I cannot change other people, but I can change.
If we love our God, maybe He will see us.
Theodore Arthur Pinnock
February 18, 1974
Scheme | XAXXBXBXCDXXXEFXFXDXEXXXXAXXXX X C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 111011101011 1111110011 01110111 1111010 01101 0111011010 10111111011 11110 011110110111 01111 1111 111 111010011110 1101010111 01110001111111 100101101011 0111111 1111001 111111110 1011010 11111 101111111111 11111111 111011101 1101 110111001111 101001111 110110101111 111101101111 101010 100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,086 |
Words | 230 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 30, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 277 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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