Analysis of Oh Love Look What We Have Done



Oh Love, look what we have done,
A tangled mess, beneath the setting sun.
Words flung like stones, a hurtful display,
Leaving scars etched, where laughter once played.

But wait, love whispers, a chance to rebuild,
With gentle forgiveness, on fertile ground tilled.
Let's mend what is broken, with hearts open wide,
Brick by loving brick set hurt aside.

For love's patient hand can mend and restore,
Together we'll rise, stronger than before.
Though shadows may linger, a lesson we've learned
Oh love, look what we have done, while we hurt again


Scheme AAXB XBCC DDXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (33%)
Metre 1111111 0101010101 111101001 101111011 1111001101 11001011011 11111011101 111011101 1110111001 0101110101 1111001011 111111111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 546
Words 104
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 142
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Written on March 25, 2024

Submitted by ggolden9 on March 25, 2024

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