Analysis of A Penny for Your Thoughts
Larry Wells Jr 2003 (Nevada)
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 |
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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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