Analysis of Love or Ambivalence?
Melita Catalina Warren 1949 (Kansas)
Out across the great High Plain,
Labors of love yield a gain.
In ambivalence my foe I arraign;
My struggle impossible to contain.
One rids oneself of sin's dark stain,
As teardrops heal yesteryear's pain.
Still, affection never feign,
Although courtesy one may deign.
Here rain sustains silken grain -
I convince myself that I am sane.
Speak of love with kisses arcane;
The Real McCoy one must attain.
My complicity foes must constrain
For upon green fields summer lain
Renders the loveless vain.
Scheme | AA AA AA AA AA AA AAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1011101 0010011101 1100100101 1111111 11111 1010101 1100111 1101101 10111111 1111101 01011101 101001101 10111101 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 482 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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