Analysis of Punishment of loving
There you were
Lovely and glowing
My heart skipped a beat
With passion flowing
You asked me my name
I shyly replied
You told me I was pretty
I said you lied
It was our first date
You wore an ugly sweater
But I thought to myself
You couldn't look better
Your birthday weekend we spent in a big city
You kissed my forehead
And said that you'd miss me
The months went on and I fell hard
But you wouldn't commit
And it hit me like bricks
And We played the game of who will break first
And it was me I was weak of course
I held on to you as long as I could
My claws digging in to my passion for you like dry wood.
It was brittle and broke everytime I squeezed hard.
And my fingers could not grasp you were like melting lard.
Pieces of you clung to my skin but just scraps
The bulk of you slippery it just kept slipping
You fell though my hand by no fault of my own.
You already told me you like life alone.
I cower in bed
I've been to the doctor
I have depression
Oh what a shocker
I still think of you in that ugly sweater
I wish that things would have gone better.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGAHAFIFJKLMNOOJJPBQQIARAAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110 10010 11101 11010 11111 11001 1111110 1111 111011 1111010 11111 110110 1111100110 11110 011111 01110111 111001 011111 0110111111 011111111 1111111111 11100111011111 11100110111 0110111101101 10111111111 011110011110 11111111111 10101111101 11001 111010 11010 11010 11111011010 111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,074 |
Words | 233 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 34 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 832 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 220 |
About this poem
This poem is about lost love, a break up or if thats what you want to call it. The hollow shell left of what was once a full blow love affair, left to rot into something foul and hateful. The poem starts out flowing beautifully like a new relationship but then gets hard to read like alot of failing relationships do. To me it captures the time line of it. Starts out smooth and easy then gets hard to read and understand the reason for it.
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