Analysis of Burned by your Love



Why are you able to melt all my icy walls?
Easily as if it were nothing
Like blowing sand away from my hands
You break down my walls and confines
Releasing me from my self-made darkness
With simple everyday words
Love - do you not know?
Do you know of all the endless nights I cried
Talking myself into letting you go
Building my estranged prison
Depraved of love
Surrounded by fear
Hiding my hands in my cold palms
So that I may not be burned
Burned by the sun - burned by your love
Then you appear
Like a phantom in the night
Like the sunrise at dawn
Casting your binding spell
I'm powerless in the face of your presence
You're pulling me down like gravity
Raising me up like a fantasy
Closer to the stars
Closer to the planets
Becoming one with the universe
Raising me closer to Paradise


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Poetic Form
Metre 111101111101 100111010 110101111 1111101 0101111110 1101011 11111 11111010111 101011011 1010110 0111 01011 10110111 1111111 11011111 1101 1010001 10111 101101 11000011110 110111100 101110100 10101 101010 01011010 10110110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 765
Words 151
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 633
Words per stanza (avg) 151
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Submitted on February 21, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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