Analysis of Can You Hear Me
As the brown eyed lady approached the scene,
she speaks no words, she has no grin
She walks at a fast pace, at her workplace...
She whispers in a soft, but troubled, voice, "Can you hear me ?"
She works hard, long hours
She loves her work, but feels no power
Again, that inner voice says, "Can you hear me ? Can you hear me ?"
She's often described in many words by how she looks and how
she feels...passive, crazy, lonely, stubborn, distant and depressed.
Again the woman says "yes" but with a soft deep inner voice,
"Can you hear me ?"
After all the attention she was supposed to have sought,
Did you hear her ? Did you hear her pain ?
The sadness, the hurt, the embarrassment, the shame
She felt she needed to keep inside so deep, what flame ?
Did some one hear me ! I did ! For I'm your friend;
Jesus, I hear you !
Scheme | XXXA XXAX XXAX XBBX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011100101 11111111 111011101 11000111011111 111110 110111110 011101111111111 110010101111101 1110101010001 010101111011101 1111 10100101101111 111011101 010010010001 1111011011111 11111111111 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 868 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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