Analysis of Tongues
Speak in tongues,
wear only yellow from now on,
cover the street in paint,
lay naked on the lawn
shout curses in my ears,
pour out your soul,
roll around in all your fears,
to help me lose control,
forget what I've become,
make me feel something, anything,
as now, I'm nothing but numb.
| Scheme | ABCDEFEFGHG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 11010111 100101 110101 110011 1111 1010111 111101 011101 1111010 1111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 286 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 219 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Written on 2018
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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