Analysis of you



Pain like I’ve never felt before
As I hold myself crying on the floor
Cried so hard I have no more tears
Now nothing can chase away my fears
The flash backs haunt me day by day
Seems like all this will never go away
Smiles come and smiles go
But most of the pain just doesn’t show
Nothing I’ve felt can ever compare to all this pain
My tears keep pouring down like rain
As worried thoughts cloud my mind
None of my memories are left behind
Never imagined it could hurt this much
Thoughts return to me with every touch
Don’t think I will ever be the same
Everyone says I’m not to blame
But my heart says otherwise
And no one can hear its cries
Even with all this emotion I have nothing to say
Though they all say it’s the price he must pay
I still feel the guilt when they say not to blame myself
I’m the one who feels the guilt not him or anyone else
Asking why I feel how I do is like asking how water tastes
I wonder if all this emotion is going to waste
Sometimes pain just overflows
It’s a feeling that it seems like nobody else knows
They try to understand how I feel
But somehow this just doesn’t seem real
I thought I could trust you I thought you cared
But after what you did to me all I am is scared


Scheme AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJDDKLMNOOPPQQ
Poetic Form Etheree  (27%)
Metre 11110101 111110101 11111111 110110111 01111111 1111110101 11011 11101111 1011110011111 11110111 1101111 1111001101 1001011111 1011111001 111110101 1011111 111110 0111111 10111010111011 1111101111 111011111111 1011101111101 1011111111101101 11011101011011 011110 10101111111 11101111 1111111 1111111111 1101111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,197
Words 245
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 30
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 955
Words per stanza (avg) 245
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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