Analysis of Still The Gift of Love



love
for
thou art
tethered
to
thy heart
but
not an illusion
thus
flown like a red kite
upon a string
within
these hands
and
still
the
gift of love


Scheme ABCDECFGHIJKLMNOA
Poetic Form
Metre 1 1 11 10 1 11 1 11010 1 11011 0101 01 11 0 1 0 111
Characters 130
Words 30
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 7
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Written on September 28, 2021

Submitted by ggolden9 on September 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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