Analysis of Beauty, personified



You are beauty, personified.
You are beauty, encased.
You are beauty, wrapped up in a bow
and presented in a bow-tied case.

Your beauty reminds me of a bird, entrapped
within a cage.
Singing softly, sadly, wondering when
he can finally escape.

Your beauty reminds me of the sun.
It warms, glows, heats, sustains me -
but never get too close, linger too long
lest be ridden with welts red and angry.

Your beauty makes my heart sing a hollow tune.
It makes my heart feel engorged.
Wrapped in briars, beating nonetheless -
you calm me and cure my utter distress -


Scheme AXXX XXXX XBXB XACC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 1110010 111001 111011001 001000111 11001110101 0101 1010101001 1110001 110011101 1111011 1101111011 1110111010 11011110101 111111 1011001 1110111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 569
Words 116
Sentences 10
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Written on June 19, 2023

Submitted by joec.81222 on June 19, 2023

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