Analysis of Never

Doug Haberman 1959 (Albuquerque, NM)



I never loved how snow
Makes the landscape more pristine
Or how flowers burst in colors
Amid a meadow’s green
I never loved to see
Lightning split the sky in two
And I never, never, never
Loved you

I never loved a quiet dinner
Wine and candlelight
Or holding hands on an empty beach
On a dreamy, moonlit night
I never loved a close-held dance
To set the perfect mood
And I never, never, never
Loved you

We fool ourselves so easily
We fool ourselves, and how
Was I doing it for all those years?
Am I doing it right now?
The need is deep to wash away
The presence of the past
When it turns out nothing’s what it seems
When it turns out nothing lasts

I never loved the intimacy
Of arms around my waist
Or imagining the look the world
Must see upon my face
I never loved the way love feels
When there’s no doubt it’s true
And I never, never, never
Loved you


Scheme xaxabcDC dexexxDC bfxfxxxx bxxxxcDC
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 101110 11101010 01011 110111 1010101 01101010 11 110101010 1010 110111101 101011 11010111 110011 01101010 11 110011100 1100101 111011111 1110111 01111101 010101 111110111 1111101 110101000 110111 101000101 110111 11010111 111111 01101010 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 864
Words 173
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 168
Words per stanza (avg) 42

About this poem

The speaker of this poem has lost a longtime love and now questions if it was ever real.

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Written on July 25, 2022

Submitted by DougHaberman on July 25, 2022

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Doug Haberman

Retired high school humanities teacher who loves to write song lyrics. Now trying my hand at poetry writing. more…

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