Analysis of Numb



When you've given all that you can
Only to be let down by another man
You question, 'When will things end?'
What ever happened to that person you called a friend?

Somewhere things got mixed up
And feelings started to screw things up
You know that you care for him
But the question becomes, "How much can you care for him?"
You've been broken down so much inside,
That the pain is becoming too much to hide

All you want is for this feeling to go away...
To take back all of your yesterdays.
Will you ever get to realize that chance?
That you once had for a true romance
Just when you thought you'd found 'That One',
You end up alone looking so dumb
Nothing left that can be undone
Just you sitting alone feeling numb...


Scheme AABB CCDDEE XXFFGHGH
Poetic Form
Metre 11101111 10111110101 1101111 1101011101101 11111 010101111 1111111 1010011111111 111011101 10110101111 111111101101 11111110 1110111011 111110101 11111111 111011011 10111101 111001101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 720
Words 147
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 8
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 186
Words per stanza (avg) 46

About this poem

This poem took 8 years to be put out there. I finally found the motivation to share with others.

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Written on January 19, 2015

Submitted by jsmit239 on January 17, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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