Analysis of Anywhere Love Is True



Anywhere love is true,
no one can erase it.
Anywhere love is false, no one can embrace it.

Anywhere love is true,
no one can erode it.
Anywhere love is false, no one can decode it.

Anywhere love is true,
no one can defeat it.
Anywhere love is false, no one can entreat it.

Anywhere love is true,
no one can enlarge it.
Anywhere love is false, no one can recharge it.

Anywhere love is true,
no one can remove it.
Anywhere love is false, no one can improve it.

Anywhere love is true,
no one can deflect it.
Anywhere love is false, no one can respect it.


Scheme Abb Abb Abb Abb Abb Abb
Poetic Form
Metre 10111 111011 10111111011 10111 111011 10111111011 10111 111011 1011111111 10111 111011 10111111011 10111 111011 10111111011 10111 111011 10111111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 534
Words 108
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 70
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on April 01, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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