Analysis of The Clandestine Love
Jose Gervic R. Labe, Jr. 1993 (Tanjay)
For months I know it's been a strenuous journey,
the path we traveled was rough, steep and thorny.
You wished and prayed for a sod or carpet laid,
yet we found ourselves dancing in trenchant blade.
Though clandestine, we promised to not refrain
from loving each other, we do not complain.
I still remember from not so distant past
you've promised me a love that'll forever last.
We shared glorious moments every day and night,
shared hugs, kisses and things that were intimate.
But all these are secrets we tried to conceal.
I may have no courage to conquer my fright,
but your love fuels your willingness to wait.
Perhaps this is the time for me to reveal.
oOo Prompt oOo
"The only thing that counts is faith, expressing itself through Love. (Galatians 5:6)"
oOo Author's Note oOo
This poem is specially written for my special someone. We have utmost faith and love for each other but we don't have the courage to share our relationship in public yet due to some circumstances.
oOo Perseplolis Sonnet oOo
When Leny Roovers (Presenter of the Dutch Sonnet) was in Persepolis (Iran) in 2015 she was impressed by how the history of East and West had met there long ago and after a lot of thought came a sonnet combining East and West. The Octave consisting of the Mathnawi form, and the Sestet a stock standard Italian one. The two forms originally had no set syllable count. Later the Anglicised Mathnawi had 11 syllables and the Wyatt version of the Italian was set to Iambic Pentameter, but nowadays these rules are often broken. Here is the pattern: a. a. b. b. c. c. d. d.. e. f. g. e. f. g.
Scheme | AABBCCDD EXFEXF GH G H G A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111010010 01110111010 11011011101 111001100101 10101101101 11011011101 11010111101 110101100101 1110010100101 11100110100 11111011101 11111011011 11110110011 01110111101 111 0101111101001111 11011 110110010111011111011110111101011100100101111100 11101 1101100101101001000101101110100110111110101001111010010101010010101100101100101011010001111001100111100001010100101111111011110101101000111111111111 |
Characters | 1,602 |
Words | 290 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 63 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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