Analysis of I Thought
Bob Vavilis 1963 (Chios)
I thought you knew me
It’s not the first time I’ve been wrong
Maybe you loved me
But your heart’s been fickle from the start
And now we sit here
Gathering up fragments of our hearts
Love’s now a stranger
Who are we?
How did we fall?
Spring promises new beginnings
With blossoming flowers and new love
It’s up to both of us now
To rediscover us or move on
And now we sit here
Holding the fragments of our love
Will love remain a stranger?
What will become of us?
I thought you knew me
It’s not the first time I’ve been wrong
Do you still love me?
Your heart’s been fickle from the start
And now we sit here
Trying to discover what we’ve become
Sometime ago you loved me…
I thought, I thought…
I thought, I thought
Scheme | ABac Dxeax xfxx Dfex ABac DxaGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 11011111 10111 111110101 01111 1001101101 11010 111 1111 11001010 110010011 1111111 100101111 01111 100101101 1101010 110111 11111 11011111 11111 11110101 01111 1010101101 101111 1111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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