Analysis of It's not supposed to hurt #



Life isn't supposed to hurt;
Being there wasn't supposed to die.
Things aren't always there,
within a perfect eye.
But when love catches its breath,
Hate lets out its cry.
"Pity me" it says;
"our love was just a lie".
Mouths are teased apart,
though words have to mean something.
There are limits on the heart;
even first love seemed unclean.
Fists didn't know any better,
Collapsing innocence moved in threats.
I wish I could have taken more,
than what my being would let.
But I didn't see the rocks
and I was blind to your love's
temporary pursuit.
And even now a part of me,
still clings to my salute.
It says my loyalty was meant to be.
In this life or the next.
How dear could that have been?
All the kisses you took without me,
one day, honestly to be seen.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 764
Words 168
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 585
Words per stanza (avg) 144
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Written on March 13, 2023

Submitted by heathert.34240 on March 12, 2023

Modified by heathert.34240 on March 13, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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