Analysis of Girl, You Love Me Way Too Much
As you lay there softly sleeping
I keep wondering what went wrong.
I gave you all the love I had to give,
I guess it didn't matter all along.
Well I guess you were the one who
Made me feeling sad and so blue,
That I cry for you in the middle of the night.
You told me things were gonna be alright.
My sad eyes hunger for your love
My tired bones yearn for your touch,
But in your own words you have spoken.
Girl, you love me way too much.
The last time that I came to town
I called you on the phone.
I wanted so much just to hold you.
You told me that you'd rather be alone.
Well I guess you're still the same ol' cowboy
always roaming around the town.
No horse, no woman's ever going to tame you.
You'll die before you ever live that down.
My sad eyes hunger for your love,
My tired bones yearn for your touch,
But in your own words you have spoken.
Girl, you love me way too much.
Scheme | xaxa bbcc DEFE ghbh xgbg DEFE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111010 11100111 1111011111 1111010101 11110011 11101011 111110010101 111101011 11110111 11011111 101111110 1111111 01111111 111101 110111111 1111110101 111110111 1100101 111101010111 1101110111 11110111 11011111 101111110 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 859 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
I lived with a guy whom I loved most of all. Only trouble was, he didn't love me near as much, if at all. He used to say to me "Girl, you love me way too much". It took me many years to figure out that yes, I did.
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Written on October 10, 1988
Submitted by kathleenc.67557 on September 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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