Analysis of Looking Straight Down
I'm standing on the edge
And looking Straight Down
Half of me smiling
While the other half frowns
I say I'll keep going
But ask myself why
It would be so much easier
To let myself fly
Jump off of the edge
And let myself fall
Right to the end
The end of it all
You presume to know me
But what do you know
Just pieces of me
I let myself show
No one REALLY knows me
Only one ever did
The ONE person I trusted
Gone, Buried, Dead
I like nothing of myself
Not one single detail
Self hate and loathing
Masked by a veil
If you truly saw me
I doubt you would stay
If you truly could see me
You'd run fast away
I'm ugly to the core
Broken from within
I pretend I'm okay
Inside my own skin
But looking in the mirror
I hate all that I see
There's no room in this world
For someone like me
Don't say that you love me
It can't possibly be
I cannot be loved
If "I" don't love me
Please don't think you can fix me
Make everything alright
I'm resigned to the truth
So no reason to fight
I should just end it
If only I could
But I'm a coward a loser
I'm simply no good
I'm standing on the edge
Looking Straight Down.......
Scheme | Abcx cded afxf ghgh giix xjcj gkgk xlkl egxg ggxg gmxm xnen Ab |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 110101 01011 11110 101011 111110 1111 11111100 1111 11101 0111 1101 01111 101111 11111 11011 1111 111011 101101 0110110 1101 111011 111001 11010 1101 111011 11111 1110111 11101 110101 10101 10111 01111 1100010 111111 111011 1111 111111 111001 11011 11111 1111111 1101 101101 111011 11111 11011 11010010 11011 110101 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,074 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Each and every day is a struggle.
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