Analysis of Do You Love?



Do you love?
Not with the glands.
Not from some needs list
With gaps showing.
Not to silence
Echoes of loneliness.
Not in the panic
To parent.
Not to conform.
Not for that patient
Listening ear,
Willing to hear
Yours and yours alone.
But do you love?
Forget eros,
Filios, storge.
Show yourself
Giver, forgiver,
Door mat and servant.
Charitable at each
New development.
Putting on the best spin
For mercy’s sake.
This is the agape.
Not yours
But Heaven’s alone.
(Leased to the least.)

Note: With thanks to C. S. Lewis in The Four Loves


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Poetic Form
Metre 111 1101 11111 1110 1110 101100 10010 110 1101 11110 1001 1011 10101 1111 0110 11 101 101 11010 100011 10100 101011 111 11001 11 11001 1101 111111100011
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 541
Words 117
Sentences 18
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 27, 1
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 206
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Written on April 28, 2015

Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 28, 2023

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Wayne Blair

Born in London. Graduated law 1976 Practised eleven years, Married Hilary 1974 Two kids Lauren 1980 And Jordan 1987. Business failed 1987. Moved not knowing whither. Happy hills of Waterloo Region. Mennonite Country. Thirty four years in Industry. No complaints. Poet, photographer, nature hiker. Harmonica busker. http://puffnchord7.blogspot.com/ more…

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