Analysis of Letters



There is no real reason
for alphabetical order
because
every essay,
every book,
every poem and every song
is just the same twenty-six
letters
in a different combination
but I’d re-write the entire
alphabet and
give it a new order
if that is what it takes
to get you to understand, not
‘that it’s “I love you,”’ but
‘it’s you that I love.’


Scheme ABCDEFGHABIBJKLM
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 1010010 01 10001 1001 1001001001 1101101 10 00100010 11110010 100 110110 111111 1111011 111111 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 356
Words 67
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 260
Words per stanza (avg) 63

About this poem

#letters #alphabet #iloveyou #love #twentysix #order #poem #romantic #contemporary

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Submitted by lifeasalyric on October 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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