Analysis of Fear Not, My Love
Fear not, my love.
You are not forgotten.
Should fate destroy this fragile brain,
Still, memories of you remain
In every cell within this frame.
My body will remember.
Fear not, my love.
You are not forgotten.
Should time reduce my flesh to dust,
The very soil of earth then must
Recall our promised love and trust.
The earth will remember.
Fear not, my love.
We are not forgotten.
When neither you nor I exist,
The paths we trod will yet persist.
The places where we paused and kissed,
They will remember.
Fear not, my love.
We are not forgotten.
When footsteps all are washed away,
And lost amid the salty spray,
The ocean waves will rise and say,
"We will remember!"
Fear not, my love.
We are not forgotten.
Should every sea on earth run dry,
Nothing left but arid sky,
Still, our love will never die.
The stones will remember.
Fear not, my love.
We are not forgotten.
If all the world should be erased,
Evaporate without a trace,
Our love would fill the empty space.
And God will remember.
Scheme | ABccxd ABeeed ABfffd ABgggd ABhhhd ABxiid |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 111010 11011101 11001101 010010111 1101010 1111 111010 11011111 01011111 11010101 011010 1111 111010 11011101 01111101 01011101 11010 1111 111010 1111101 01010101 01011101 11010 1111 111010 110011111 1011101 11011101 011010 1111 111010 11011101 0100101 101110101 011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,001 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem for a dearly loved one who was facing death, afraid that he had done nothing memorable with his life.
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