Analysis of Picking Sores
My heart reaches out with a kiss,
Just this, with you all I know is bliss.
Transformation is the way we grow
Yet we lack the power to let go.
Dredging from the bottom of the bin,
Forlorn, caught up in retched sin.
Who said it had to be them or us?
Picking sores only leads to puss.
Who is the one who loves you most,
The Father, Son or Holy Ghost?
All three for one and one for all,
Read the writing on the wall.
We all have secrets; they make us, who we are,
Weather we stay close to home or if we travel far.
Don't wallow in pity or in self-remorse
It serves no purpose other then setting us off course.
We will choose a path and take it without choice.
We will do what fate decrees and have no voice.
Legions of choices shall mark our labored way
Yet the choices that we make, we'll have no say.
A fool dreams of all the different roads he can take,
Of all the different choices he can make,
Not aware that choice is just an illusion.
Hopes and dreams bring naught but confusion.
As trees grow so do our souls grow, branches
Reach out and seek the sun, we seek happiness
Each and every one. Star-struck with egos made
Of egg shell, all the kings horses and all the kings
Men, we know the story it happens again and again.
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Metre | 11101101 111111111 01010111 111010111 101010101 0111011 111111111 10110111 11011111 01011101 11110111 1010101 11110111111 1011111111101 11001010101 1111010110111 11101011011 11111010111 101101110101 10101111111 0111101001111 11010010111 10111111010 101111010 11111101110 11010111100 101001111101 111101100101 11101011001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,196 |
Words | 243 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on August 21, 2014
Modified on March 16, 2023
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