Analysis of The Best Song I Never Wrote



I got inspired the other night
A glass of whiskey in my hand
Thoughts came pouring from my soul
I became a different man
Didn’t put my words to ink
But the lyrics they all rang true
I’m such a fool, I didn’t think
My memories would be so few

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I should have figured after all this time
To keep safe these precious words
The reason you don’t know my songs
Is I’m afraid of being heard

It’s happened more than once or twice
Whenever I get a righteous buzz
I reach a higher plane, I think
But you know there’s a little fuzz
I’m in the zone, can’t stop me now
My mind builds the perfect maze
But morning comes on way to soon
And it’s all a muddled daze

This is the best song I never wrote
And you never heard it played
Consider it a souvenir
A remnant of my haze
If I ever get my act together
If I ever straighten out my game
I hope to share my thoughts with you
And I hope you do the same


Scheme XXXXABAB XXXXX XCACXDXD XXXDXEBE
Poetic Form
Metre 110100101 01110011 1110111 10101001 111111 10101111 1101111 11001111 01 1111010111 1111101 01011111 11011101 11011111 010110101 11010111 11110101 10011111 1110011 11011111 0110101 110111101 0110111 0101001 010111 1110111010 111010111 11111111 0111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 929
Words 189
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 5, 8, 8
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 174
Words per stanza (avg) 46

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Submitted by ileini86 on April 06, 2023

Modified on April 14, 2023

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