Analysis of Pretend

Lina Dow 1976 (Nazareth)



We pretend thats what we do
We pretend you never hurt me
We pretend i never left
Pretend there's more to our
Relationship than all the shots
We've missed. So we kiss
each other senseless
Because we have no senses left
We wish so badly this could go
Back to normal this is all like
a moving train passing through
Never stopping at the place
You need to get off at.
But i will savor the moment
Here with you now, because i am
Just so tired of being sad
Of having to pretend i am okay
Without you.
So we pretend we don't think
About the things we did to each other
Pretend we'll be okay.
Maybe one day we'll pretend so hard
We will be.


Scheme ABCDEFGCHIAJKLMNOAPDOQB
Poetic Form
Metre 1011111 10111011 1011101 0111110 0101101 11111 11010 01111101 11110111 11101111 0101101 1010101 111111 11110010 11110111 11101101 110101111 011 1101111 0101111110 01111 101110111 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 632
Words 130
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 23
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 495
Words per stanza (avg) 127

About this poem

About relationship ending wishing they can go back but its not easy

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Written on January 08, 1976

Submitted by linadow23 on July 10, 2023

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