Analysis of Not a tear for you
You were standing in the doorway,
When I was only three,
You didn’t have much to say,
But I knew you were leaving me.
I begged you not to go,
But you said it’s just too late,
I never felt so low,
It was then my heart began to fill with hate
You weren’t around to teach me things,
Like how to ride a bike,
why the little bird sings,
or about all the hobbies that you like ,
I waited and I waited,
For you to come back home,
Years passed and I hated,
All you missed while I’d grown
Always on my birthday,
So sad you were never here,
Id blow out the candles and say,
“Please, let this be my last tear”
Soon that birthday wish would come true,
I never cried again,
Especially not a tear for you.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGX AXAX HXH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010001 111101 111111 11110101 111111 1111111 110111 11111011111 11011111 111101 101011 1011010111 1100110 111111 110110 111111 1111 1110101 11101001 1111111 1111111 110101 01010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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