Analysis of Always a Martyr



I have tried too hard
To feel important in your world.
I'm now a patched up
Self-made hero
Draping a pathetic stupid girl.
There is humility
In this realization I've found.
Which will help me
Get my tired feet
Back to resting on the ground.
There were never wings
To lift me higher with you
Only a foolish
Selfish belief
That our fiction love was true.
There will be no stretcher
To carry my wounded pride.
I will just have to shove it
In the lesson box
To rot with other mistakes inside.


Scheme ABCDEFGFHGIJKLJMNOPN
Poetic Form Etheree  (40%)
Tetractys  (35%)
Metre 11111 11010011 11011 1110 100010101 110100 01101011 1111 11101 1110101 10101 1111011 10010 1001 11010111 111110 1101101 1111111 00101 111100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 496
Words 103
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 386
Words per stanza (avg) 93
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