Analysis of A Penny for Your Thoughts



It's late yet my mind's racing
With words and phrases pacing
What's yet another sleepless night
In a room with no more light

The things I would say to you
If you were here with me too
These feelings lodged in my chest
That I wish I could exhale with my breath

Locked in this state of pain
With so many things in my brain
Could I write them all with a pen
Sit and stay awhile, then I'll begin

Please it'll take but a moment
And it'll bring an end to my torment
See try as I might sleep is out of reach
This writer's block is something I can't breach

I'd give you a penny, a dollar, five
If into your mind I could dive
A fresh story, a new idea to explore
That would bring me back to before

A boy of naivety with a heart of gold
Or at least that's what I have been told
After I traded it for a dream that couldn't last
A concept of you that stayed in the past


Scheme AABB CCXX DDXX XXEE FFGG HHII
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 1111110 1101010 11010101 0011111 0111111 1101111 1101011 1111101111 101111 11101011 11111101 101011101 11011010 010111111 1111111111 1101110111 1110100101 10111111 011001010101 11111101 011110111 111111111 1011011011101 0101111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 866
Words 188
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Written on March 04, 2022

Submitted by larrywellsjr03 on March 05, 2022

Modified on April 17, 2023

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