Analysis of They Should Not Love You
You have an easy smile,
Quick and full.
But your tongue is rotten,
You have black ooze
Curdling in the back of your throat.
You have such beautiful hair,
Honey colored and satin touched.
So thick,
It covers the insects living in your scalp,
Which bore holes into your skull.
Your eyes are blue-green
And gold like the sun.
Though the green often turns sickly,
the gold pales and weeps.
With a second look, they will see worms.
You care so much,
So very much.
But actions speak louder than words,
Accidents are still crimes,
And you are a felony.
Scheme | XXAXX XXXXX XABXX CCXXB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) |
Metre | 111101 101 111110 1111 1001111 1111001 10100101 11 1100110011 1110111 11111 01101 10110110 01101 101011111 1111 1101 11011011 100111 0110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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