Letters



There is no real reason
for alphabetical order
because
every essay,
every book,
every poem and every song
is just the same twenty-six
letters
in a different combination
but I’d re-write the entire
alphabet and
give it a new order
if that is what it takes
to get you to understand, not
‘that it’s “I love you,”’ but
‘it’s you that I love.’

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#letters #alphabet #iloveyou #love #twentysix #order #poem #romantic #contemporary

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Submitted by lifeasalyric on October 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHABIBJKLM
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 356
Words 67
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

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