Analysis of Second Best...
Robert Catron 1963 (Kansas)
Have you ever felt like you were second best,
Like your just not as good as all of the rest?
You don't have the looks or enough money,
No one to hold you or call you Honey.
You give them your heart full of joy,
They just treat you like an unwanted toy.
You're at their every single beck and call,
Yet you mean nothing to them - nothing at all.
You gave them all of your love - the very best you had,
But you still mean nothing to them - all you feel is depressed and sad.
You beg for their love with all of your might,
But your just pushed away and left behind - what gives them the right?
You ask why I talk of love in this way,
I've been there my friend - I used to live with it everyday.
Dedicated to all of the people and family who have hurt me beyond deeply...you know who you are.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGG X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110101 11111111101 1110110110 1111111110 11111111 1111110101 11110010101 11110111011 1111111010111 1111101111110101 1111111111 111101010111101 1111111011 11111111111101 1000111010010011110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 788 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 299 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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