Analysis of What a fag
Oh yes
What a fag
I remember it clear as day
You know,
Something changed in that moment
A new target on my back
A new line drawn
Don’t cross it
You can’t handle that again
Sitting stunned
Stone
My mind spinning
My world cracking
I’d been here before but not like this
The siege had begun
And I’d been looking the other way
Arrow in my back
Sudden pain
I replayed it for days
The haunting timbre echoed
About my skull and shook
Loose
My sanity
Like fine china, broken
I never told a soul
It steeped and got stronger
Who do you trust enough?
To honestly see you as a person
How do you tell them?
Where the arrow came from
And I wish I could say
It wouldn’t hurt now
I’ve heard it plenty
Used it too
But hateful spirit
Will sharpen a dull knife
The meaning can be removed
Until it cannot
And you’re gone
Scheme | XXA XXBCXX XXDD XEABX XXXXFE XXXEXX AXFXXXXXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 101 10101111 11 1010110 0110111 0111 111 1110101 101 1 1110 1110 111011111 01101 011100101 10011 101 101111 0101010 011101 1 1100 111010 110101 110110 111101 1100111010 11111 101011 011111 1111 11110 111 11010 110011 0101101 01110 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 821 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 4, 5, 6, 6, 9 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Written on March 03, 2022
Submitted by joeyal0197 on March 07, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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