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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