Analysis of Gifted Willingly
Your steps to heaven
are paved with love
with all the renderings
given from above
In a world that you created
filled my heart from the first day we met
until the time you parted
in the rituals that was set
There was not one specific thing
that you gave to me
it was the complete package
you gifted willingly
You stopped my efforts
from saving you
for the price was too great
for what you would go through
I could see the pain in your eyes
from your deathbed
for the life you were losing
from the tears you bled
It was killing me slowly
piece by piece
as you lay in rest
under a setting sun in the east
There were no clouds
lingering in the blue sky
it was a clear pathway
to heaven from where you lie
My sadness will not be lasting
as I will find my way to you
soon I shall take heaven's steps
where our love will renew
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEXE XFXF XGDG EXXX XHXH DFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (88%) |
Metre | 11110 1111 110100 10101 00111010 111101111 0101110 00100111 11110101 11111 1100110 110100 11110 1101 101111 111111 11101011 111 1011010 10111 1110110 111 11101 100101001 1011 1000011 11011 1101111 11011110 11111111 1111101 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 804 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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