Analysis of Elusive Love
Love is like a rainbow
without its pot of gold.
Though impossible to grasp it,
It’s lovely to behold.
Love is like a vapor
a wispy, filmy cloud.
In vain I seek to hold it,
so pristine, pure, and proud.
Love is like a fountain,
a splashing, sparkling stream.
To contain it is to change it.
Love’s an elusive dream.
Love is like tomorrow,
lending promise to today,
enticing and alluring,
yet just a step away.
Love is like a sunbeam
dancing on a wave.
An effort to embrace it
could mean a watery grave.
A rainbow or a sunbeam
a fountain or a stream,
the promise of tomorrow,
a vapor, cloud, or dream,
cannot be held or bottled.
Like love, they must be free.
When unconfined, their beauty
shines forth for all to see.
Scheme | ABCB XDCD XECE AFXF EGCG EEAE XHHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 11101 011111 10100111 110101 111010 01011 0111111 110101 111010 010101 10111111 110101 11101 1010101 0100010 110101 11101 10101 1101011 1101001 01101 010101 010101 010111 1011110 111111 101110 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 744 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem many years ago as a young woman recently jilted, or perhaps, pursuing a love that could not be.
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