Analysis of Heisenberg



What you don't know
Won't just hurt you
It will merk you —
It'll straight up get you killed

One minute
You're eating like a king
Next thing you know
You're staring at the bill
Scanning the room for the nearest exit

'Cause there's a very thin line
Between spending and flashing
And you can perish the thought
Of a dine and dash on the everlasting
'Cause it's not gonna happen

The only way out is the same way in:
Carried.
Covered in someone else's blood
Waiting to be buried or married

You can refuse life to have it
Or seek it where it isn't granted
(But remember that you're playing for keeps
And both sides are never advancing)

So, Carpe Diem...
Swing away...
Stay meek...
And stay wily

Because you don't know
What you don't know
And until you do...


Scheme Abbx xcaxd xcxcx xefe dfxc xxxx aAb
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1111 1111 1011111 110 110101 1111 110101 1001101010 1101011 0110010 0111001 1010110010 1111010 0101110110 10 1001101 101110110 11011111 111111010 1010111011 011110010 111 101 11 0110 01111 1111 00111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 739
Words 143
Sentences 6
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on November 17, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Shon White

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