Analysis of Love or Ambivalence?



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
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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Submitted by mcwarren on January 10, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Melita Catalina Warren

I am a senior citizen, visual artist, and inspirational poet. My spiritual quest to know Jesus Christ intimately relates to many of my rhymes. However, I also write romantic rhymes and rhymes drawing from other topics. One of my goals is to illustrate my rhymes with my original drawings. more…

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