Analysis of I can'T



...stoP l-oooO-Oooo-ving you...

I can't stop loving you
So I've made up my mind
To live in memory
Of such an old lonesome time

I can't stop wanting you
It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life
In dreams of yesterday.

Those happy hours
That we once knew
Though long ago,
They still make me blue

They say that time
Heals a broken heart
But time has stood still
Since we've been apart

Don Gibson & The Jordanaires -I Can't Stop Loving You (1963). Or  Ray Charles - better rendering than the original singer, in my humble opinion; perhaps also cause that was the only version I kept on hearing growing up in Japan, so I was more used to Ray Charles singing than Don Gib...


Scheme A AXXB ACXC XAXA BDXD X
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 111101 111111 110100 1111101 111101 11011 111111 01110 11010 1111 1101 11111 1111 10101 11111 11101 1100111110111110100100100100110010011011101010111101010011111111110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 678
Words 136
Sentences 4
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by gscana on January 20, 2023

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Nobody Nose

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