Analysis of the child in me
when I was a little kid
the child in me I had killed
or so was what I thought
God knows what I had sought
I started living in a cage
felt like an actor on a stage
I played some movie characters
the grim and sober swaggerers
I wouldn't dance I wouldn't sing
I wouldn't say no stupid thing
I wouldn't act weird or dumb
of joy, I made my heart numb
but I failed to think of one simple fact
while putting on this stupid act
that I was just a 6 year old
a heart that young I had controlled
no cruel the world's been to me
if my own viciousness I were to see
no one has bruised my heart more
it's only me and me alone.
Scheme | XXAA BBCC DDEE FFGG HHXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1110101 0101111 111111 111111 11010001 11110101 11110100 010101 11011101 11011101 1101111 1111111 1111111101 11011101 1111011 01111101 11001111 1111001011 1111111 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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