Analysis of His love

Toni Dulaney 1989 (Ohio)



Why do we fall or lean on another,
Why do we stay in a place where we continue to smother.
Why is a that hole so comfortable even though we're trapped inside,
Getting bossed around by others yet we still continue to abide.
Taking orders when we could be so much more,
Never getting that strength to walk out of that door.
We blame it on love but that isn't being loved,
When your only source of affection is to be pushed on or to be shoved.
You always make excuses on how you were the one to blame,
He would never do it on purpose no it's not the same.
You tell them they don't see him like you do it was only one time,
So You push your family away is him loving you really a crime?
The next time you make him mad its back to long sleeves,
The bruises weren't his fault nor was the pain that it leaves.
Staying by his side with false hope in your heart,
Never coming to the terms that love wasn't there from the start.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111010 111100111010110 11011110001011101 10101110111010101 10101111111 101011111111 111111110101 111011010111111111 11101011100111 11101111011101 1111111111111011 111110001111011001 011111111111 01010111101111 10111111011 101010111101101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 903
Words 185
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 712
Words per stanza (avg) 185
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Submitted by Onlytru89 on January 08, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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