Analysis of Sorrow and Emptiness



I could recite a thousand poems
Of what you mean to me
But then none of them would be mine
And still you wouldn't see
I can't us another's words
About how you make me feel
The words I have for you
Are the ones in my heart still
I know I hurt you in some way
That I am trying to understand
Perhaps I was envious and jealous
Because I am a man
You are very special to me
Even though you retreat away
If you ever come back to me
My sorrow would wash away
I know all the things I do
I feel are in vain
But this time it feels
That we'll never be the same


Scheme ABCBDEFGHIJKBHBHFLMN
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 110101010 111111 11111111 011101 1110101 0111111 011111 1010111 11111011 11110101 0111100010 011101 11101011 10110101 11101111 1101101 1110111 11101 11111 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 549
Words 120
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 426
Words per stanza (avg) 120

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Submitted by lukeafink on May 02, 2011

Modified by lukeafink on November 16, 2022

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