Analysis of Rubles Love Rubble



Pried out of a distance procured

Why do you devour a land not yours?

To consume it,

Break it apart, spit it out

For this be told to your brothers and sisters

This is the way you want them to feel loved

“I want you,

I need you,

You were always mine.”

Those land mines, hmmm…

They cannot leave your arms fast enough

Before they break their lives, their homes

The things you want to call your own

No one looks back and remembers you fondly

No one leaves believing

That you’ll leave the place

Better than you found it

And the lies we tell on all sides

That this is love

There is a better definition

And it’s not because we are hurting

Watching you hurting

No, this has only just begun


Scheme X X A X X X B B X X X X X X C X A X X D C C D
Poetic Form
Metre 11101001 1110100111 1011 1101111 11111110010 1101111111 111 111 1011 1111 110111101 01111111 01111111 11110010110 111010 11101 101111 00111111 1111 11010010 011011110 10110 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 740
Words 174
Sentences 3
Stanzas 23
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 23
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by Tremac on April 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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