Analysis of Shelter of Love



Love is my shelter, for it protects me, from the rain of life. But I am a shelter, within myself, searching for another to protect from the rain of life. But if not for the clouds in the sky, the sky would seem so vast and empty.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
Metre 11110110111011111101001110101010110111111101001011111010
Characters 229
Words 47
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 175
Words per line (avg) 47
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 47

About this poem

I wrote this, in a series of dreams, 20+ years ago.

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Written on July 15, 1998

Submitted by Happyman0969 on May 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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C. E. Thomas

Born in Riverside CA, in the summer of 1969 more…

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