Analysis of Honestly
I want a schizophrenic girlfriend
Who takes her cat on the subway
Who wears only black, gray, and red clothes
And runs after taxis in the rain
Drenching her hair
She doesn't know how to do taxes
But quotes lines from The Simpsons all day
Making a mess eating Turkish food
Teasing with unspoken thought
Always between jobs
She knows what she likes, but not why
Disillusioned, disinterested, sullen, afraid
Disappearing behind a glass of bourbon
She rolls over and sleeps until 11:00
Never understanding me
| Scheme | XAXXX XAXXX XXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100101 1101101 111011011 011010001 1001 110111110 111101011 100110101 1010101 1011 11111111 01001001001 0100101110 11100101 100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 490 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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