Analysis of Help Me Understand
Help Me Understand ?
We can, but only try
To understand the why
The reason we exist
Or how, we so persist
Amongst the good or bad
Within the joy or sad
To love and fill with hope
Or hate and only grope
they willingness to share
to help but wonder where
love is the essence of our mere the existence learn to shun its resistance
we traveled so far not to turn back now
can't turn around when your hands on the plow
so help me understand while living in a land that is so very mean
through the isle of dicontent have we made a single dent
why are the innocent found to be guilty
where is our sense of mere dignity
some say we are living in a foreign land
filled with kings and queens in their evil schemes
in time we shall shine the deep heart of love from straight help from above
Scheme | A BBCCDDEEFFXGGX XHHAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 111101 10101 010101 111101 010111 010111 110111 110101 110011 111101 11010110100101111010 1101111111 1101111101 11101110001111101 101111110101 11010011110 1110111100 11111000101 1110101101 0111101111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14, 6 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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