Analysis of What He Might Have Been Thinking
Telling them all "it's so good this is it"
Two thumbs up and my fingers are licked
But theres no such luck, just a man that is fucked
If you bring me my sleep, I'll forget what was said
I'll piss in my dreams to wash the hopes from my head
We stepped out this door together, night being rendered
To highs and crashing lows and all their great shows
They always want whatever you've got
And you always want to be wherever you are not
Legitemate lies for a world that feeds on crime
Ya I still use but only "as prescribed"
Everyones got a story, a bottles no higher bliss
Last time I looked I was hopping a plane
To go anyplace, anywhere, anyday
With an agenda they can't make us surrender
They've seen what we can do
It's in my genes, "I'm the great pretender"
Been waiting for the punchline
But I was the real joke behind their eyes
Feel like holding on to something
While I'll be letting go of this "big nothing"
Give a reason to call, closing my eyes to the fall
Carrying me to the only place left to be
Scheme | AXXBB XXCC XXX XADXD XXEEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111111 111011011 11111101111 111111101111 110111101111 1111101011010 11010101111 1111011 011111010111 111011111 1111110101 110100101101 1111111001 1110101 110101111010 111111 1011101010 110101 1110110111 11101110 11110111110 1010111011101 100110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 983 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 3, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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