Analysis of Numb
Carrie Zis 1981 (Narrogin)
How can it hurt so much while I feel so numb
I don’t understand how this I have become
I am trying to hard so fucking it up
Over compensating at every stop
When did I change so much after you
I feel so used completely screwed
I want to be happy
I want to stop the pain
But I am not really there it’s all a Front in vain
How do you still take up so much of my thoughts because I know you will now hate me and my heart hurts
Someone please help me out of this mess
I just want to feel good not like this instead
I wish it was different I wish I could have made you happy
But I am a failure and not enough for you
It breaks my heart everyday to
| Scheme | AABCDEFGGHIJFDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
| Metre | 11111111111 1101111101 11101111011 1010011001 111111101 11110101 111110 111101 1111101110101 111111111110111111110111 11111111 11111111101 1111100111111110 111010010111 11111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 637 |
| Words | 140 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 500 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
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Written on July 20, 2020
Submitted by Cazil on July 18, 2021
Modified on April 28, 2023
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