Analysis of Black Sadness

Yael shamilov 2005 (Haifa)



Black like the night
A dark space with no light
Every star in the sky disappear
Room without any windows near
Nothing anymore is clear

Alone on your bed
Your thoughts showing up again
Inside you are almost dead
Asking what did I do wrong back then
Who hurt me and when

I want to escape
Afraid to be betrayed
Afraid to escape
Before the feeling will fade
I want to escape
And never look back

They are small but a lot
it's better to get hurt from a shot
A little scar forever will stay
A colorful world, but all I see is gray
Why I can't my soul fill with clay

I feel like crying
The tears aren't flowing
Cry to a friend
Fall on the sand

I want to escape
Afraid to be betrayed
Afraid to escape
Before the feeling will fade
I want to escape
And never look back

My soul is a mess
I feel like trash
I want to confess
But all I can say it's nonsense


Scheme aabbb cdcdd EFEFEG hhiii jjxx EFEFEG kxkx
Poetic Form Tetractys  (23%)
Metre 1101 011111 100100101 10110101 100111 01111 1110101 011111 101111111 11101 11101 011101 01101 0101011 11101 01011 111101 110111101 010101011 01001111111 11111111 11110 011010 1101 1101 11101 011101 01101 0101011 11101 01011 11101 1111 11101 11111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 878
Words 206
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 6, 5, 4, 6, 4
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted by yael.shamilov on September 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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