Analysis of I've Seen it All Before



I've seen it all before,
the terror in their eyes,
the terror in the skies,
coming down like a hurricane,
breathing flame and fear,
over all the sinners of no sins.

I've seen it all before,
heard all of it before,
heard the tales and the rhymes,
of all the evil in the world,
and all of it just lies,
spoken to inset fear
into all our hearts,
so we would go and
breath flame and fear,
over all the sinners of no sins.

All the sinners of no sins.


Scheme AbbxcD AaxxbcxxcD d
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 010011 010001 1011010 10101 101010111 111101 111101 101001 11010001 011111 10111 011101 11110 1101 101010111 1010111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 429
Words 90
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 10, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on January 04, 2017

Modified on April 08, 2023

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