Analysis of Songs of love



Together they would sing the same song.
A love song from long ago.
Day in and day out they sang.
Until the dove was gone.
The crow stopped singing.
He stopped playing his lyre.
He stopped talking.
He missed the beautiful dove.
He sat.
He waited.
He weeped.
Hoping someday,
Somehow,
He might learn to love again.
The darling dove was everything to him.
She was his world.

The crow, now old and decrepit,
He sits under a tree,
He stums his lyre,
And he sings,
He sings songs of love from long ago.
He sings them to the village children.
To his children.
And their children.
In the wind he hears the dove.
She sings a melody,
She sits beside the old crow.
“You’ve learned to love again?”
The Dove whispers.
“I have, I have indeed.”
The crow sings.
The dove,
Now a mere shadow,
Plays a tune into the lyre,
Its a song of love,
A song that was with him all along.


Scheme ABXXCDCEFXFXXGXX XHDIBJJJEHBGXXIEBDEA
Poetic Form
Metre 010111011 0111101 1001111 010111 01110 111011 1110 1101001 11 110 11 101 1 1111101 010111011 1111 01110010 111001 1111 011 111111101 111101010 1110 0110 0011101 110100 1101011 111101 0110 111101 011 01 1011 1010101 10111 011111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 870
Words 202
Sentences 25
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 16, 20
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 325
Words per stanza (avg) 83

About this poem

I had to write it for class, and i thought i might as well enter it into this contest

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Written on September 15, 2022

Submitted by ilikethenumbergreen on September 16, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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