Analysis of What is love?



By: Curtis Carroll 7/3/2010

Love cannot be defined by the dictionary
For it is complicated and contrary
To those who say they know what it means
Have yet to experience its manipulative schemes.

True love can only be offered by a pet
A dog will be more faithful than a cat
A horse will work endlessly night and day
Just give him a lump of sugar and a bit of hay.

Yet men foolishly think they can dictate
To the women they have chosen for a mate
Delusions’ of love he has planned for tonight
Only to be derailed by a headache and a meaningless fight.

Adam too, thought he was the only one
Then along came Eve and the fun begun
A leaf she wore as she strolled through the grass
Followed by the one called: “Snake in the grass!”

Even Adam, he couldn’t believe
That he would be deceived by his beautiful Eve
But one day he saw her strolling through the grass
Followed by another- that ‘snake in the grass’.

Young men take heed and listen to your mother
For she would always love you like no other
‘Nothing more than a bellyache!’ she would exclaim
Tomorrow will come and you would have forgotten her name.

Note: Lots of reasons to write this poem.


Scheme X AAXX XXBB CCDD EEFF GGFF HHII X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 11010110100 1111000100 111111111 1110100101001 11110110101 0111110101 0111100101 1110111000111 1110011101 10101110101 01011111101 101101101001001 1011110101 1011100101 0111111101 1010111001 10101101 111101111001 11111010101 10101011001 11110101110 1111111110 10110101101 0111011101001 1111011110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,133
Words 219
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on February 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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