Analysis of The Power of Love



She was a super-hero with a maternal facade.
Her Powers were invisible to us.
Each day was a new battle to ensure our survival.
A super-hero's work is never done.
Protecting us from evil,
She was a shield with her heart of steel,
But her unmatchable strength was also an extreme weakness.
The day had come to battle her nemeses.
He was a self created catastrophe.
Empowered with anger fueled with weeks of isolation,
She met her match that day.
Her strength was weakened when he used it against her.
And with an explosion she was gone.
But she lives on through the three of us.
And her power is ours,
But our blessing is also our curse.
We battle with the anger he left us,
And each day we are here we win,
As he is battling HIS worse enemy.
Solitude.

- John William Pendleton III


Scheme XABCBXAADCXXXAXXAXDX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101001001 0100010011 111011010110010 0101011101 0101110 110110111 101111010110 011111001 11010100100 01011010111010 110111 011101111010 011010111 111110111 0010110 11010110101 1101010111 01111111 11110011100 10 1101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 760
Words 147
Sentences 15
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 20, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 305
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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