Analysis of What is this...love?




What is this...love?
do not call this love
for my body's sacrifice
does not make it so
for the tears that I cry
and the long sleepless nights
do not add up to the word

Those four letters
are like fingernails
devouring my flesh
with every spoken sound
mouth wide open
without the decency
to know the true meaning

Like coal on a fire
I have sat and watched you burn me
as if I knew I deserved it
for some past sin
and now
you call my name again

How dare you call this ugly creature,
this criminal in my heart
...love
much like a carnivore
taking all the meat from me
only to spit me out

Am I not good enough to eat?
is there some rare breed I am unfamiliar with?
...because
I thought that rare breed was me
and so I cut my leg off and whistle
come and get it

And you shall rip me of my fleshy shell
only to take what's left as well
discarding my humanity
unjustly
and find another
to entertain your thought


Scheme AAXXXXX XXXXXBX CBDXXX CXAXBX XXXBXD EEBBCX
Poetic Form
Metre 111 11111 111010 11111 101111 001101 1111101 1110 1110 010011 1100101 1110 010100 110110 111010 11101111 11111011 1111 01 111101 111111010 1100011 1 11010 1010111 101111 11110111 11111110101 01 1111111 0111111010 1011 0111111101 10111111 01010100 010 01010 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 867
Words 183
Sentences 7
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 6, 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 38
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on November 30, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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