Analysis of The Heart’s Paradox: Torn between Love and Pain
A young heart, torn apart,
By the past and pull of love and pain’s art.
One brings solace, the other despair,
Choosing one over the other, a heart’s delicate care.
Love brings comfort, and pain brings tears,
Both have the power to conquer one’s fears.
Love mends wounds, pain leaves scars,
Choosing one over the other, a burden on the heart.
The young heart struggles to comprehend,
Why these two forces, it must bend.
Why can’t love be the only thing,
And pain be gone, like a bird taking wing.
But life is complex, and nothing is clear,
Both love and pain, they always appear.
Tangled together, like strands in a knot,
A heart’s journey, with love and pain as its lot.
So the young heart must find its way,
Through the maze of love and pain each day.
Choosing love, even in pain’s embrace,
For love is the light, that will bring peace to the race.
For love is stronger, and love will endure,
Pain will fade, like a forgotten cure.
So hold on tight, to love’s warm light,
And let pain’s darkness, fade into night.
For love is the balm, for a heart’s ache,
And pain is the test, of love’s strength to take.
So choose love, and let it guide,
Your heart through life, with love by its side.
Scheme | AABB XXXA CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 011101 1010111011 111001001 10110010011001 11100111 1101011011 111111 10110010010101 01110101 11110111 11110101 0111101101 1111001011 11011101 1001011001 01101101111 10111111 101110111 101100101 111011111101 1111001101 111100101 11111111 011101011 111011011 0110111111 1110111 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,237 |
Words | 255 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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The paradox between love and pain as a young man
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Written on February 21, 2023
Submitted by robertl.36434 on February 21, 2023
Modified on March 15, 2023
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