Analysis of Your Mask Fell Off
Your Mask Fell Off
Your mask fell off
When you said you loved me
And your kiss, affections
Gestures and gifts
Paled into insignificance
When you were absent
A lot and often.
Your nakedness is ugly
A body of lies occupies my eyes
Filling it with grotesque
Images and evidence
All your counterfeit faces
Show you are hollow
A ghost in masquerade.
Your conscience is dead
A walking fraud
Impostor of feelings
A cesspool mouth
Your face wears
Sad mendacity
Never to be trusted.
Copyright © 2023 Charles Edward York
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| Scheme | A Abxxcxx bxxcxxx xxxxxbx xx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1111 111111 011010 1001 1010100 11010 01010 11110 010111011 101101 1000100 111010 11110 01001 11011 0101 010110 011 111 10100 101110 101101 111110111101100010101010010111111010100100010110010100101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 738 |
| Words | 136 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 7, 7, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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The heartbreak of a love that was a lie
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