Analysis of would there be tears?



You say I am an idiot
you call my mind distracted
you could never understand
What it's like in that maze
the hell I designed for myself
Where do you think I trapped myself
why do you think I died on the inside

whenever I payed attention,
the shadows ripped me apart
sanity's only just pent up tension
words hold more power then a single dart

Why should I listen to the shadows
when they tear me down
tell me why I failed to drown
why I couldn't just drop from the chair

do you know how many times I tried
to snuff out this fire within me
could you bare to know what your words do
to who I am inside and out

you lecture to pay more attention
yet whenever i open up I want to shut down
Tell me why I couldn't let myself drown
in that ignorant bliss

Would it break you to say that hate knows no bounds
when it comes to all that I know
hearts hold no promise in my desolate land
you're an audience with no show

Why do you think I bleed on this paper
when I take ink from a pen
could you surmise why I hide prayer
in an unforgivable sin

would you ever just listen
to the soul that's within
could you ever snuff your pride
if you were the reason that I died?


Scheme XXAXBBC DEDE XFFG CXXX DFFX XHAH XXGI DICC
Poetic Form Tetractys  (26%)
Metre 11111100 1111010 111001 111011 0110111 1111111 1111111001 01011010 011101 11011110 1111010101 11110101 11111 1111111 111011101 111110111 111110011 111111111 11110101 110111010 1010110111111 111110111 011001 11111111111 11111111 11110011001 11100111 1111111110 1111101 11011111 0101001 1110110 101101 1110111 110010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,118
Words 236
Sentences 1
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 7, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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