Analysis of "Testimony of 2020"
Its only a matter of time before the flame dies out
Only mere moments before no one hears you shout
You're trapped in a hole, its dark and bitter cold
Everything starts to fade as you become old
So worn out by all the mistakes in your life
Wondering if you'll ever get the chance to make it right
The smile you once had is broken and decayed
The debt you've accumulated can never be repaid
So you lay in bed at night, you toss and you turn
Wondering "Does it matter? Will anybody learn?"
Trapped in this cage that you call your head
Thinking to yourself "Its better if Im dead"
The blows you've taken create wounds that cannot heal
But everyone says forget it, its not a big deal
So you still attempt to smile amidst all the pain
Clinging to some hope so you dont go insane
You put your walls up amd reinforce them too
Hoping and praying that nobody gets through
Then one day that person comes around
You start to relax and tear your walls down
They learn your ways and alot about you
They understand the things you had to go through
You laugh and smile and make many memories
You both create a song with a special melody
Then one day the pain creeps back in
You promised you'd never let it surface again
Then all of a sudden you become "numb"
You tell yourself "How could I be so dumb?"
She see it now and she doesn't wanna stay
So all we had is thrown right down the drain
She finds somebody else & says that shes happy
But yet your stuck alone dealing with the misery
You're scared to talk because now the pain is worse
So you turn to drugs to numb that curse
You cut yourself because you wanna bleed
You tell yourself "This is all I need"
You keep ur distance away from everyone
The damage that occured can never be undone
So youre right back where you started
A damaged lost soul...hurting and brokenhearted
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Metre | 11001011010111 101100111111 11001110101 1011111011 11111001011 10011101011111 01111110001 0110100110101 111011111011 1001110110001 101111111 10101110111 011100111101 110101111011 111011101101 10111111101 1111110111 100101111 111110101 1110101111 1111001011 1010111111 11010110100 1101011010100 11101110 110110111001 1110101011 1101111111 11110110101 1111111101 1110111110 1111011010100 11110110111 111111111 1101011101 110111111 1111001110 01011110101 11111110 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,827 |
Words | 356 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 40 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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