Analysis of It looked like love
what began with a kiss
ends with a wave of the hand,
the shattering of a heart,
the burning of love
on a pyre of letters and cards
exchanged over happy years.
what exactly went wrong?
neither one cares to ask
how did the ending come?
who was to blame?
when did one become two?
they go their separate ways.
it was never love, she says,
or it would not have died.
it looked like love, he says,
when I held it up to the light.
but in the darkness where she cried
he dreamed love an undying magic
| Scheme | XXXXXX XXXXXX ABAXBX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 1101101 0100101 01011 101011001 0110101 101011 101111 110101 1111 111011 111101 1110111 111111 111111 11111101 10010111 111101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 475 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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