Analysis of I Love you

Leo Long 1986 (Durban)



I found a million words

Laying all about
Of love, joy and gratitude
Volumes they would write
Enough the world to fill

Yet now when pressed to speak
Or say how I feel
Unbelievably only three come to mind


Scheme X XXXX XXX
Poetic Form Acrostic
Metre 110101 10101 111010 10111 010111 111111 11111 0100101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 195
Words 39
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 3
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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