Analysis of WITHOUT YOU
Being without you is like a sinking ship
It’s like a shepherd who’s lost his sheep
It’s like a being that’s lost its heartbeat
Being without you is like a door without a key
It’s like a bed without a pillow
It’s like a song without a voice
Like a bird without a feather, I’m restricted.
Can’t move on without you
Like a face without a name, I don’t belong.
I’m lost without you
Like the blind walking without a guide, I’m blind to happiness.
It’s invisible without you
Like a potter without clay
Your hands and mine are needed to create perfection
Like a multitude with several languages
My heart yearns for you in multiple beats
Like slavery in past centuries, I’m ensnared without you.
Like eyes that have lost its sight
Like love without two hearts beating as one
All that is left is sadness within my heart
Hope without companion, and emptiness in my world.
Now I drink pain in every delight and poison in every wine
Indeed, being without you is bitter.
Being without you is simply being without!!
Scheme | XXX XXX XA XA XA XB XX A X B XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011110101 110101111 110101111 1001111010101 110101010 11010101 101010101010 111011 10101011101 11011 101100101111100 10100011 1010011 1101110101010 1010110100 1111101001 110001100101011 1111111 1101111011 11111100111 1010100100011 111101000101001001 0110011110 100111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,043 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
It's about a Love lost.
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