Analysis of The Hardware Store



Breathing through a plastic bag until I'm out of air
Is how I would describe our love, 'cause you don't seem to care
But somehow we still function to a point that I can bare
And sometimes I do wonder what's to come of this despair

Though I'll have you know in lucid dreams, I live a second life
Where I am not your husband, no, and you are not my wife
But when the curtains fall for me, I know I must get up
To gain the strength to rise from bed, I wish you'd just shut up

Lies, more lies, and alibis, like your trips to the hardware store
We don't need that much gorilla glue, I know what you go there for
You take me for some facile fool, and I find that quite a bore
You think you're so equivocal, but I've deduced you're just a whore

(Written on October 22, 2012)

© Ricky Randall
October 22, 2012


Scheme AAAA BBCC DDDD E XE
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101011111 111101101111111 1111101011111 00111101111101 111110101110101 11111101011111 11010111111111 11011111111111 1110101111011 1111101011111111 111111010111101 1111010011011101 101010 1010 010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 787
Words 162
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 1, 2
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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