Analysis of I do not even have a crush
Katie C. 2002 (Minnesota)
To my brain my blood does not rush
For I do not even have a crush
I have no one to dream about all day
No one to convince me to stay
I have no one who might one day hold my hand
Or go with me to see that terrible band
I have no one whose presence gives me butterflies
or who makes me deeply dread our goodbyes
For I do not even have a crush
Not one person who makes my cheeks flush
I haven’t had one in over a year
To never have one is my fear
I’ve never been fond of celebrities
Always too far away from real
Boy bands never interested me
Too much boyish zeal
I just want someone close by
Who holds me when I cry
He doesn’t have to be perfect, I know I’m not
I just want someone who thinks of me a lot
I would think of him too
In that romanticized dreamy kind of way
And I don’t think I would ever stop
Even when we turn old and grey
But I don’t even have a crush
I don’t even have an ideal
And sometimes this frustration
Is all I seem to feel
Maybe this is better than the pain
Of being rejected in the pouring rain
But no matter how hard I try
I’m convinced that is a lie
So I’m spending another Night alone
Not one message to light up my phone
No real friends to call my own
Looking and learning but Unseen and unknown
Scheme | aAbb ccdd Aaee xfxf gghh xbxb afxf iigg jjjj |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111 111110101 1111110111 11101111 11111111111 11111111001 11111101110 1111101101 111110101 111011111 111101001 11011111 1101110100 1110111 11101001 11101 111111 111111 11111011111 1111111101 111111 0101010111 011111101 10111101 11110101 11101101 0011010 111111 101110101 11001000101 11101111 1011101 1110010101 111011111 1111111 10010101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,206 |
Words | 259 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
Maybe I’m not the only one who has felt this way.
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