Analysis of Stealing Looks
We keep stealing looks
Back and forth at each other
Trying to forget our past
Smiling to act as a cover
Past relationships that failed
Built up a wall to protect
Defending a wounded heart
Fears of a love reject
Lonely Way is a two way street
Needing, but afraid of love
Searching for courage enough
To take a chance again on love
I see interest in your eyes
But I sense fear in your heart
Like me you’re hesitant
To try to make a new start
Your broken heart all healed
But how healed if your still afraid?
Your mask of confidence wears thin
Giving clue to your facade
And I’m no different
Holding back my emotions
Can’t make known my fragile state
Or fall victim to deceitful potions
Fear of commitment
And I won’t do one night stands
So why is it I want to
Reach out for your hand
You don’t know me
And I don’t know you
We spend our nights
Lonely and blue
And yet still here we are
Stealing looks between us
Can we be open to love?
Without all the fuss
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Scheme | XAXA XBCB XDXD XCEC XXXX EFXF EXGX XGXG XHDH X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1011110 10101101 10111010 101011 1101101 0100101 110101 10110111 1010111 1011001 11010111 1110011 1111011 111100 1111011 110111 11111101 11110011 1011101 011100 1011010 1111101 1110101010 11010 0111111 1111111 11111 1111 01111 11101 1001 011111 101011 1111011 01101 10110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 975 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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