Analysis of Loves Denial
When you split the beam and the splintered edge
is all you’re left with
The only one you’ve outsmarted
is yourself
A prisoner of your severed choice
and schizophrenia
The victim of your hearts defeat
—and loves denial
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110100101 11111 0101110 101 010011101 00100 01011101 01010 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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