Analysis of They Should Not Love You



You have an easy smile,
Quick and full.
But your tongue is rotten,
You have black ooze
Curdling in the back of your throat.

You have such beautiful hair,
Honey colored and satin touched.
So thick,
It covers the insects living in your scalp,
Which bore holes into your skull.

Your eyes are blue-green
And gold like the sun.
Though the green often turns sickly,
the gold pales and weeps.
With a second look, they will see worms.

You care so much,
So very much.
But actions speak louder than words,
Accidents are still crimes,
And you are a felony.


Scheme XXAXX XXXXX XABXX CCXXB
Poetic Form Tetractys  (35%)
Metre 111101 101 111110 1111 1001111 1111001 10100101 11 1100110011 1110111 11111 01101 10110110 01101 101011111 1111 1101 11011011 100111 0110100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 558
Words 122
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted by DaisyMMontgomery on October 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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