Analysis of Hero in Love



The best friend
that came along.
Amazing companion,
who does no wrong

Amazing love
 between each other,
 strong like the mother.

What a powerful thing
 this friend does bring.

I cannot say no when it
comes in slow. Such a kind
way  to enter in,  eases and
pleases like the spring wind.

Asleep so deep within the spell,
my best friend wakes me  like
the distinct bell!

It calls me to play again and again
I can't help but say "now"  when it
asks me "when".

I can't say no,  when it comes in
slow, such a kind way  to enter in,  
easing and pleasing  like the
Spring wind.

What will become of the two of us?
I will not withdraw! So pure this lure,
I want more and more!

If I cannot afford this love n'more
what, then, to live for?  I will die
for this love I found  and this love
will lay me down....

So softly in the ground.


Scheme XAXA BCC DD EFXF GXG HEH IIXF XXJ JXBX X
Poetic Form
Metre 011 1101 010010 1111 0101 01110 11010 101001 1111 1101111 101101 11100100 101011 01110101 111111 0011 1111101001 11111111 111 11111110 110111100 1001010 11 110110111 111011111 11101 1110011111 11111111 11111011 1111 110001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 823
Words 164
Sentences 14
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 1
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 17

About this poem

This poem is about the addiction to heroin that so many poor souls have succumb to. Keep them in your prayers. The title is "Hero in Love".. should be easy enough to decode.

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Written on May 10, 2000

Submitted by on September 05, 2021

Modified on April 19, 2023

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