Analysis of Out of step with Love
Royston 1946 (Reading)
‘Didn’t Peter do well at school”, she said;
again he felt that great feeling of dread.
It didn’t even enter his mind to ask.
He’d been too busy working on his task.
“Did you see my sunflowers?”, she had cried.
“No, I didn’t see them”, he had replied.
Once again he knew he had failed the test
to meet yet another loving request.
Earlier that day he made a mistake
and drank her coffee in the morning break.
“That’s it”, she said, “This will not do”
“Next time I’ll make milky coffee for two.”
“You’re over reacting”, he said to her.
But the words unheard were just a blur.
Something’s not right, It must be me.
Whatever’s causing this I cannot see.
But two days ago we had an affray
she reacted in an emotional way.
I’d dug up the grass but should have left it all
for her to treat by pouring on some chemical.
“You never do what you promise”, she said.
“I knew I could not rely on what you said.”
Oh how can these things ever be resolved?
They’re so complicated and involved.
I am so ashamed in having to say,
it is what I’ve done that’s made her this way.
Oh, how will I ever earn her trust again
and cease from causing her such awful pain?
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH GIXX AAJJ IIXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 110111111 0111111011 1110101111 1111010111 111110111 111111101 1011111101 1110101001 1001111001 0101000101 11111111 1111101011 1100101110 101010101 1111111 11011101 111011111 10100101001 11101111111 101111011100 1101111011 11111011111 1111110101 11100001 1110101011 1111111011 11111010101 0111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,177 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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