Analysis of If Love is a crime

Hirayat Noor 1982 (karachi)



If Love is a crime
I will do it many times
Who says , Its a loss of time
For me ,Its melodious rhyme.

Here silver tears and golden sighs
soft torments and bitter joy
Here weep to laugh again
Here me to part again

Here autumn is evergreen
Its victim are pale and lean
Here life bears living death
cancerous sores encloses breath

Here they cut mercy with knife
separates a man with darling wife
Here sirens cry on sleepy minds
Day sleeps and night reminds
Oh love is a crime
Its a loss of time
Now turn your mind
To another shrine


Scheme AXAA XXBB CCDD EEFFAAXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Metre 11101 1111101 1110111 11101001 11010101 110101 111101 111101 110110 1101101 111101 100111 1111011 10011101 11011101 110101 11101 10111 1111 10101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 549
Words 114
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 8
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 26

About this poem

My poem depicts the true picture of society where love is considered to be a sin.

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Written on January 23, 2021

Submitted by ruqiakulsoom95 on September 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Hirayat Noor

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