Analysis of Love and Truth
Sharon McCormick Spivak 1952 (Bangor, Maine)
Love and Truth
by sharon jean McCormick spivak
Feb. 6, 2021
We loved with passion for a time.
Together intertwined as one.
Our love rhapsodically divine,
So deeply felt it left us blind,
To time and truth which now had come.
We fought that Truth as best we could,
Attempts to push it far away,
Into, perhaps, a distant wood,
Away from love “misunderstood”
But Truth would not be long delayed.
Alas, we stood across the room,
He held belongings in his hand.
We stood in silence - in a tomb,
Where once we’d felt our new love bloom,
Not realizing where we’d land.
The day he left we both shed tears,
Each facing truths we’d come to know.
If only Truth weren't quite so clear,
I watched him ‘till he disappeared,
Amidst the newly falling snow.
| Scheme | XXXXXXXX AXAAX BCBBC XDXXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 110101010 100 11110101 01000111 101101 11011111 11011111 11111111 01111101 01010101 0111001 11111101 01110101 11010011 11010001 111110111 1100111 01111111 11011111 110110111 1111101 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 756 |
| Words | 158 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem in an attempt to use the poetic style of Robert Frost’s THE ROAD NOT TAKEN and to capture a memory long past.
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