Analysis of anxiety writes my wedding vows again



Do you love me enough,
To give me an extra set of skin when
The one I was born with is not thick enough?

Do you love me enough
To see me suffering with a smile on my face,
And pull me out of the fire I put myself in?

Do you love me enough,
To cradle me in your arms, holding me close,
When my mask falls off and I’m back to being a child?

Do you love me enough
to replace all of the mirrors with your words-
So instead of seeing scarred, I hear beautiful?

Do you love me enough,
To stand by me when all I want to do
Is back down, surrender, and give up?

Do you love me enough,
That when you see me dissected on a table,
As both the victim and the surgeon,
You clean the blood off my hands,
Stitch up my wounds, and forgive me?

Do you love me enough,
To love me when I am not able?
Enough to say “it’s okay,
No matter how much you hate yourself,
I will be here to tell you you’re wrong”?

Do you love me enough,
For me to be enough?


Scheme Axa Axx Axx Axb Axx Abxxx Abxxx Aa
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 1111101111 01111111101 111101 111100101111 011110101110 111101 11010111011 1111101111001 111101 1111010111 101110111100 111101 1111111111 111010011 111101 111110101010 110100010 1101111 11110011 111101 111111110 011111 110111101 111111111 111101 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 960
Words 235
Sentences 10
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 5, 2
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted by ghosti on January 04, 2022

Modified on April 23, 2023

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