Analysis of Love, what are thou?
Abby Kesington 1979 (Lagos)
Love, what are thou?
Abby Kesington.
Is it a flutter in the pits of your stomach?
Or a blush on your plump cheeks
Perhaps, it’s that sparkle of light in your eyes?
This thing called love!
Does it make you shiver with cold on a hot summer night?
Or warms you up with need on a blistering cold morning,
…like hot lava rushing down your privy parts?
This thing called love!
Does it come in colors of rose petals or white orchids?
Perhaps, it’s the bouquet of flowers in porcelain vases draped in red ribbons
That makes you blossom like the flowers of autumn?
This thing called love!
What really are you?
Some say you are “purest of them all.”
Quick to overlook faults, graciously granting second chances to recalcitrant souls
who smear you with their depravity and belittle you to just a feeling…..
Others dare say you don’t exist at all...
Just a figment of human imagination….
If you are as pure as they say,
I don’t want to smear you with my impurities
If you are as forgiving as they say,
I ponder if you can look over my shortcomings
And if you are just an imagination
Please paint my mind with pictures of your portrait,
A representation of your likeness.
For you are not just a thing called love but a mystery unfathomable.
Scheme | xa xxxB xcxB xxaB xdxcdaexexaxxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 101 110100011110 1011111 01111011011 1111 11111011101101 11111110100110 11101011101 1111 11101011101110 01100111001001010110 111101010110 1111 11011 111110111 11101100101010101001 1111101000010111010 1011110111 10101100010 11111111 111111110100 1111010111 110111110110 0111110010 11111101110 000101110 1111101111010001000 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,267 |
Words | 260 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 14 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
About this poem
Inspired by St. Valentines day
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Written on February 16, 2023
Submitted by Abbykesington on February 16, 2023
Modified on April 06, 2023
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