Analysis of Blotchless
No one is perfect until you "fall in love."
Faults are overlooked in your sweet turtle dove.
Basically speaking, "love covers many sins."
In lustful desire is where it all begins.
When your eyes open and sight has been restored,
flaws and blemishes suddenly spring forward.
Small irritations, percolating to leach,
magnify issues by widening the breach.
Lasting relations are compatibly based:
strife and dissension are prudently erased.
Values and interests, fundamentally shared,
form the foundations where no goodness is spared.
The "perfect stranger" is completely unknown.
Facts remove blinders with exposure full-blown.
The unfamiliar appears impeccable:
no obvious blotch but still susceptible.
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDEE FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11101011101 1110011101 10010110101 010010111101 11110011101 10100100110 101010011 1010110001 10010111 10010110001 1001001001 10010111011 00110101001 10110101011 0010010100 11001110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 686 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on January 02, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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