Analysis of Arrivederci!
Who are you to judge me now
When you’ve made mistakes too?
And yet you want to crucify me
In the public’s view
I’ve never claimed perfection
As others have before -
But there you stand, casting stones
Knocking down my door
I’m through with feeling guilty,
I don’t feel any shame -
I did just what I had to do
My life is not a game
So now you’re just somebody
That I once held so dear -
But if your world fell down on you
I would not shed a tear
Just go about your business,
Yes go, and leave me be -
Because in time I know that I’ll
Erase your memory
You do not hold the power
You seem to think you do -
Arrivederci, Adios, Goodbye
At last to you!
Scheme | XABA XCXC BDAD BXAX XBXB XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 1111111 111011 01111101 00101 1101010 110101 1111101 10111 1111010 111101 11111111 111101 111110 111111 11111111 111101 1101110 110111 01011111 011100 1111010 111111 1011 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 666 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
This is about love gone bad. When one partner refuses to accept the end of a relationship, and trying to ruin the other partners reputation.
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Written on May 15, 1978
Submitted by lanhamleslie on November 19, 2022
Modified on March 30, 2023
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