Analysis of For there was no love.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
His touch shot her arm
like frostbitten tingles
She walked the floor
Trying to mingle
His footsteps close
Almost shaking the floor
Beneath her heels
There eyes met
As fear dropped bombs
in her tightening stomach.
She did not look twice
She escaped to the garden
Sitting in silence she noticed
Blood as her hand had brushed
the fence of nails
She lay down
Watching the branches
Sway in the night sky.
Wondering how long to wait
till she died.
| Scheme | ABCDBCBEBFBGHIBJBKLM |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (45%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 11101 1101 1101 10110 111 11001 0101 111 1111 0010010 11111 1011010 10010110 110111 0111 111 10010 10011 1001111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 445 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 20 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 359 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Written on February 27, 2022
Submitted by heathert.34240 on February 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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