Analysis of Love was but a foreign song to me
Mariyum Kaleem Toor 2002 (Lahore)
Meetings in drawing rooms, a discourse over tea
A matter of heart, discussed like a pleasantry
Treated like a royal, trudged over like a peasantry
Love was but a foreign song to me
Lost on my senses, a void I refused to see
Reluctant touches; feathery hesitations
Such a joy to others, my source of eternal agitation
Pulled here, pushed there, mold me a certain way to be
Just thinking about it caused hyperventilation in me
It asked for such an awful undivided attention
Upon heaven and Earth; my unshakable devotion
What was so special about it that I could not see?
The Shades Of Love were colorless to me;
Possession, addiction, suppression, obsession
Love was and will remain out of my comprehension
I was blind to ‘it’ and deemed it not worthy!
| Scheme | AAAA AXBA ABBA ABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 100101010101 010110110100 10101011010100 111010111 111100110111 01010100010 101110111010010 111111010111 1100111101 1111110010010 01100110100010 1111001111111 0111010011 010010010010 110101111010 11111011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 762 |
| Words | 141 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
When everyone around you describe love as a warm feeling that can wrap you up in a bubble that no one can burst but you feel detached with the feeling of love, you feel confused surrounded by people having their own definitions of love. what is love? Is it subjective? Is it objective? How do you know if you love someone or not. Love is a foreign feeling until.....
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Written on April 03, 2023
Submitted by Mariyum on May 01, 2023
Modified on May 03, 2023
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