Analysis of Until Then
Until you really love someone,
you don’t know what you’ll do
The old rules self-abated,
priorities renewed
Until you really love someone,
you won’t see past yourself
Your life upturned, your role reversed
—your soul to someone else
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)
| Scheme | Ax xx Ax xx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111011 111111 0111010 010001 0111011 111101 1111101 11111 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 24, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on February 24, 2020
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