Analysis of Love And Passion



There is a love of fashion and vanity and style.
There is a love of passion and arrogance and guile.

There is a love of candy and chocolate and treats.
There is a love of brandy and alcohol and sweets.

There is a love of anger and violence and vex.
There is a love of languor and indolence and hex.

There is a love of college and sophistry and facts.
There is a love of knowledge and pedantry and knacks.

There is a love of travel and escapade and rest.
There is a love of cavil and trickery and quest.

There is a love of money and avarice and greed.
There is a love of honey and gluttony and feed.


Scheme AA BB CC XX DD EE
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1101110010001 1101110010001 110111001001 110111001001 1101110010001 1101110101 11011100101 1101110010001 110111001001 110111010001 1101110010001 1101110010001
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 587
Words 120
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 12, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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