Analysis of A little love
Brandon Mcmurtrie 1994 (Lodi)
My generation drink, smoke and pop pills at their convenience because its all they think they can do,
an excuse thrown upon other excuses
to alleviate the truth.
the truth it seems forgotten along with subtlety and discourse.
Can't enjoy a night out sober
without feeling some remorse.
Uncomfortable in their own skin, the words to all seem fumbled,
the tongues they speak are
foreign in the morning as they're mumbled.
The foot shake, and hand tapping, all create a beat,
the beat of indecision, anxiety and grief.
At the death, and loss of confidence, the loss of their own words,
just sipping on the poets brew of solitary words.
Are they happy? who knows, its all about getting really f***ed up, saying phrases like
"last night was so amazing", before all the memories are thrown up
upon the pavement outside the front door like an artist with their mouth as a brush,
They puke upon their possessions, the ideas and dreams that we all have.
They grow up naive and plain, and a little misunderstood,
They don't mean to be a bother, they just need a little love.
Scheme | XXXAXA BXBXXCC XXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101101111010011111111 10110110010 101001 0111010011100010 10101110 0110101 0100001110111110 01111 1000101110 011011010101 0110010010001 101011100011111 1101010111001 1110111101101011110101 11110100110100111 01010110111110111101 110110100010011111 1111010010001 111110101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,067 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 280 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Written on April 10, 2022
Submitted by Bmcmurtrie_94 on April 17, 2023
Modified on April 19, 2023
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