Analysis of The Language of Math



My teacher told me math was a language understood by all,
a universal vernacular with potential large and small.
So I wrote my heart’s desire a note set in polynomial design,
knowing that for sure the note would make her mine.
I wrote my terms so beautifully to make her weak in the knees,
exponential feelings, the only variable - her love for me.
I gave my girl the note, her reaction was rather crass,
She laughed in my face and showed the rest of the class.
Now I am alone, my social life is dead.
A formula meant for love created a long division instead.
My polynomials did not function, even though I did them right.
I was foiled by mathematics and left to cry at night.
As for math being a language, there is one thing I am sure of –
Math must be the devil’s language for in math there is no love.


Scheme AABBCDEEFFGGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 11011110100111 001001001010101 11111010011010001 10111011101 111111001101001 0101001010000111 11110100101101 110110101101 11101110111 01001110100101001 1111101011111 1111010011111 1111001011111111 111010101011111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 812
Words 168
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 627
Words per stanza (avg) 156
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Written on September 25, 2016

Submitted by on February 26, 2022

Modified on May 01, 2023

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