Analysis of 3 L's



Life is peachy
Life is keen
Life is leachy
Not always what it seems

Love is beautiful
Love is great
Love is dutiful
It is never late

Lust is ruthless
Lust is pleasure
Lust is truthless
In which bears no treasure


Scheme AXAB CDCD XEBE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 1110 111 111 11111 11100 111 11100 11101 1110 1110 111 011110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 213
Words 43
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 14

About this poem

I wrote this poem when I was 17 and published it here. I can't find it, though, so I figured I'd resubmit it.

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Written on December 05, 2003

Submitted by carl.50610 on April 26, 2024

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Carl Thompson Jr

I had a bit of a rough start in life, as many of us do. I am an Army veteran, divorced and a father of two intelligent daughters. I express myself in myriads of outlets and I've lived more in this lifetime than most do in 5. Scorpio through n through and a junky in more aspects than I'd care to admit. I am a form of a form—a creative creator creating. I am more…

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