Analysis of Over & Out



Hey Mr. John Doe, do you see me coming around the bend? I did a head count and looks like we’re missing some friends. Hey noble soldier, do you remember me? We did our time back when it meant something to be free.
Do you see me coming round the bend? Maybe we can make some new friends, and then we can start over again… Over & out my friend.
Well there’s my saviour, he’s lying passed out on the floors, boom a headshot, was it worth dying for?
We held our heads up when the world was forcing it down, we looked to the sky, but I don’t know if we wanted to be found.
I hid my lighter as I lit a cigarette, my life grew brighter when I realized I had something left. I wrote a letter to myself if I made it through. I said if I’m living, then I’m living for the blues.
Do you see me coming round the bend? Maybe we can make some new friends, and then we can start over again… Over & out my friend.


Scheme aBcdeB
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111110010111011011010111101011010111101111110111 1111101011011111101111100110111 111111011101101111101 111011101110111110111111110111 11110111001111101110111011101011111111111101110101 1111101011011111101111100110111
Characters 913
Words 190
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 113
Words per line (avg) 31
Letters per stanza (avg) 678
Words per stanza (avg) 185
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Written on December 21, 2018

Submitted by tribeone_b on January 04, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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