Analysis of Everything But Love
Using words
only borrowed
—but not owned
Wearing clothes
stolen from a Mime
—not my own
I placed a token
metaphor
inside a pictureless frame
Giving you everything
but love
—time and again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
Scheme | XXX XXX XXX XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 101 111 101 10101 111 11010 100 01011 10110 11 1001 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 238 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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