Analysis of You Don't Love Me Enough

Gouldie Anne Oliveros 1980 (Mahayahay, Iligan City)



Looking at my reflection,
Seeing past what many people is seeing.
Beyond this physique is a broken soul.
Hiding inside - enclosed and bound.

I can see my imperfections clearly,
Insecurities, doubts, fears and many more.
Concealing everything inside,
Too broken to let go and be true.

Words - a powerful weapon of all,
Uttered and vindicated by gestures,
Carelessly sometimes spoken and rendered,
With repercussion kept and remembered.

Love - I gladly gave in.
In the frontlines - I placed my heart.
Trusting you without reservations I gladly give,
Hoping you see the worth I never saw in me.

But unrequited love is all that this is,
You don't love me enough to give me a piece of yourself,
With reservations and inhibitions - you kept your wall.
Who I am then when you told me you love me?
What right do I have then when you don't love me enough?


Scheme XXXX AXXX BXCC XXXA XXBAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011010 10111010110 0110110101 10010101 111101010 0100110101 0101001 110111011 101001011 1001000110 1000110010 101010010 111010 0011111 101010101101 101101110101 1010111111 11110111101101 101000101111 11111111111 1111111111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 826
Words 152
Sentences 12
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 30

About this poem

a poem for someone I love but don't equal my love

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Written on November 06, 2021

Submitted by Gouldz on November 06, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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