Analysis of Self Love



Self love.
To achieve and it acquired.
Does not or often,
Develop from neglect.
Or a lack of discipline to get.
Although that may be,
An ingredient one may perceive.
On a journey early in life one takes,
Without receiving encouragement.
Or shown what they have chosen to do,
Is not accepted to expect...
One would chose a path.
Going in a different separate way.

A self love could come,
From evaluating mistakes one has done.
And not to admit to anyone,
That path they had taken...
Was not so easy to achieve.
With obstacles and negativity.
On a path to believe,
Of being deceived by their own...
Dreams to wish them into reality!

Then...
One day,
It occurs in one's mind to question.
With time to waste.
Is the task too difficult to face?
Or...
Is it their faith for attention wished,
More wanted to replace.
Could that be a priority?
Could that be a reason,
One on a path to achieve their task.
Would leave it behind.
With alibis and excuses made.
From them nobody asks.

Then it occurs in one's mind.
With time known to waste,
About what others may think.
Knowing if it had not been,
For self love and discipline...
To achieve what they believe,
Could be done without neglect.
It matters not how deep one's love may be.
Regardless.
Since what is eventually achieved,
Will be disbelieve anyway.

Even for the one,
Keeping their faith to hold on done.
Left surprised by their own accomplishments.
Hoping.
Yet not expecting them to come.
But...
Witnessing for themselves,
With love kept for self and faith to keep.
Can prove with it done to do.
Not to continue to doubt or question!


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Poetic Form
Metre 11 10101010 11110 010101 101110011 1111 101001101 1010100111 010100100 111111011 11010101 11101 1000100101 01111 1010001111 01101110 111110 11110101 110000100 101101 11001111 11110110 1 11 101011110 1111 101110011 1 111110101 11011 11100100 111010 110110111 11101 11000101 1111 1101011 11111 0111011 1011111 1110100 1011101 1110101 1101111111 010 1110100001 1100110 10101 10111111 1011110100 10 11010111 1 100101 111110111 1111111 1101011110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,584
Words 345
Sentences 41
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 13, 9, 14, 11, 10
Lines Amount 57
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 244
Words per stanza (avg) 57
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Written on December 10, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on December 10, 2023

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