Analysis of The Lovely Maze



My life a maze of emotion,
A map does not exist.
For love, and grief, and endless strife,
My soul can not resist.

Every time I think of you,
This maze does weave and weave.
With every thought I have of you,
My love does cease to leave.

What must I do to comprehend,
This maze I have created.
At last! At last! I understand,
This love can not be sated!

Some plan of action I must take,
To find my true loves calling.
And so I bid myself farewell,
Because forever I will be falling.


Scheme XAXA BCBC XXXX XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11011010 011101 11010101 111101 10011111 111101 110011111 111111 1111101 1111010 1111101 1111110 11110111 1111110 011111 0101011110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 465
Words 96
Sentences 10
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on September 10, 2012

Modified on March 29, 2023

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