Analysis of Battle Within Me
Little boy lonely. No, look at the life I've sown.
Little boy lonely. I am not I am grown.
Little boy scared don't run and hide.
There are some to help you if you do not deny.
How do I know or whom do I trust,
of the advice I hear, or a path that I must
take to go here or to be with her?
Sometimes this path seems to be but a blur.
These walls that I build never really come down.
They are shuffled like cards and moved all around.
I can't let them see me the alarm has been tripped.
In a scramble of panic another wall will be slipped
into place to prevent or perhaps delay.
So I may be alone for another day.
Now sit stewing inside my head
thoughts ricochet of feelings dead.
Well maybe not dead but tucked away.
No they're not, you feel them each day.
Why are these feelings so hard to express?
Another relationship winds up in a mess.
Because you refuse to let your past depart,
Remembering each day is a chance for a new start.
But are these those days when I have the strength,
to take on the world or to go the length,
necessary to complete another day?
Or is it a day of weakness I should hide away?
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Metre | 101101110111 10110111111 10111101 111111111101 111111111 100111101111 111111110 0111111101 11111101011 11101101101 111111001111 00101100101111 01110110101 11110110101 11100111 1101101 110111101 11111111 1111011101 01001011001 01101111101 0100111011011 1111111101 1110111101 1001010101 1110111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,083 |
Words | 224 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 853 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 224 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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