Analysis of Knotted up love
Desmond Sheehan 1970
Your problems are mine
My problems are yours
Where are the solutions
You blanket me
I pick you up
Each seeking the others needs
All this help
Who is better
A tangled fire hose
Putting out fires a little at a time
Patchwork and quick fix
How do we help each other
Where do we
Separate helping each other
To helping ourselves
We want the other's happiness
It's knotted so tight as to
Not see who's purpose it serves
Let me unravel me
You unravel you
And
The US not come undone
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 11011 110010 1101 1111 1100101 111 1110 010101 10110010101 1011 1111110 111 1010110 110001 11010100 1101111 1111011 110101 10101 0 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 472 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 380 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on February 06, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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