Analysis of I'm Sorry

CharlotteBrown 2007 (Massachusetts)



When you're reading this,
You might be thinking of murdering me,
But this has been burdening me for some time,

I just need to get it out,
I just need to scream and shout,
It's been haunting me in my dreams,
And been taunting me with its screams in my head,

So here it goes...

I'm bad for you,
I make you mad,
I make you sad and everything but glad,
When you're on the phone and I say something dumb,
I know you just want to chop off my thumb,

Hopefully, I'm not being impulsive or unrealistic,
If you need examples I can be specific,
When I do something dumb,
I just want to drown myself in the Pacific,

Now you can call or write,
Maybe you are praying to satan that he'll just smite me off the earth,
The earth that I turned into ruins,
Without thinking before I spoke,
I might need to make a mental note,
Or I should say it before I choke,

I won't be calling anymore,
Not because I don't care,
But because I care too much,
And it fogs and blurs my rational thinking,
When I mention something dumb when you're struggling,
I don't know why I do it,
I guess my brain just tells me to blurt out something,

I know that you're going to do great,
I know that you'll meet the perfect mate sometime,
But I know it's not me,
And knowing that, in my brain, I'm cleaving through a pain,
Where it's almost as if I found someone I thought was perfect,
They never got on my nerve,
I knew that if I swerved off the road,
They were the arms that I would want to close my eyes forever in,
I wanted to die in your arms if possible,
But I guess it's just unrealistic,

I've been thinking too hard,
I'm still going to send you cards,
And I'm sending the hat that you gave me,
It's the only thing I can do right now that'll save me,

Just remember that I care,
I love you,
If you needed surgery,
I would be the one to wear the glove,
Because I don't trust anyone else with your lovely life but someone who does love you and who knows you,

You need to find someone who can meet your needs,
You need someone who can see you inside and out,
I say maybe try that when you're out,

I love you Em, and I'm sorry. For all the things that I've done to hurt you,
I can't keep in contact with you because of the wave of guilt and shame I get,
I just need to stay in my lane sometimes,
And not meddle in yours,

I need to get better at listening,
I can't imagine all the things I'll be missing,
When I don't call,
When I don't get the chance to talk,

Hopefully, this is for the greater good,
If I could tell the future I'd make sure,
But I guess, we'll just have to wait and see,

If it was world war three,
I would want you there with me,
In a random abandoned house,
Make sure the doors are locked to keep the zombies out,

Oh, the future I'll be missing,
The times that will be missing pieces of my life,
The life I wish you could have with me,
But again
Now, It's a mutual decision
This is my final goodbye...

I love you, stay safe, do great things in the world, become a child life specialist and achieve your dreams.
I love you and care and soon, I'll just be a tear on a piece of paper. Maybe taped together.


Scheme XAB CCDX X EFFGG HHGH XXXIXI XJXKKXK XBAXXXXXXH XXAA JEAXE XCC EXXX KKXX XXA AAXC KXAXXX DX
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 1111011001 11111001111 1111111 1111101 11101011 01101111011 1111 1111 1111 111101011 11101011101 1111111111 10011100101010 111010111010 111101 11111100010 111111 10111011011111101 011110110 01100111 111110101 111110111 1111001 101111 1011111 01101110010 111010111100 1111111 111111111110 111110111 1111100111 111111 010101111101 1111111111101 1101111 111111101 1001111111110100 110110111100 11111010 111011 11101111 0110011111 10101111111011 1010111 111 1110100 111011101 01111101111011111110111 1111111111 11111110101 111011111 111101101101111111 111011101101110111 1111101101 011001 1111101100 110101011110 1111 11110111 1001110101 1111010111 1111111101 111111 1111111 00100101 110111110101 10101110 011111010111 011111111 101 110100010 111101 111111110010101110000111 111010111101101110101010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 3,097
Words 707
Sentences 7
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 1, 5, 4, 6, 7, 10, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 6, 2
Lines Amount 75
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 137
Words per stanza (avg) 36

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Getting something off my chest

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Written on May 04, 2022

Submitted by charlotteb.03116 on May 05, 2022

Modified by charlotteb.03116 on May 06, 2022

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