Analysis of Under the mask
Sit down and don't say anything
Let me talk
Deep
Deep
Deep
Inside I’m hurt
I’m crying out for help
And yet don't want anybody see that
I’m good
Good
Good
at hiding it
The pain
The nights I cry myself to sleep
The overthinking
Overthinking
Overthinking
If I am, am
I less than, not enough
Asking
Asking
Asking
myself if life is
Worth this loneliness.
Stuck
Stuck
Stuck
In the same
4 walls of me all day–
Things
Things
Things
Like that will
Drive anyone berserk.
Holding
Holding
Holding
It in don't
Make anything better
The more
I hold it,
the larger
the hole.
The larger
the hole,
the less
there is
to hold on to.
People ask,
“You okay?”
Yes! I say
So don't
Anybody feel bad for me
But every time
Every time
Every time
Someone asks
I hold back, ready to cry
Think of smokin’
the pain
Away …
but will that help?
It do, but it don’t last for long
For that time,
That little time
2 hours high
it is the. best. Feeling. …
Question is: When the smoke clears,
What is next?
| Scheme | ax BBBxcx dDDeFb aAAxx AAAgx HHHxi JJJxx AAAkl xeLMLMxgx xiikx nNNxo fFicx nnoaxx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 111 1 1 1 0111 110111 0111100011 11 1 1 1101 01 0111111 01 1 1 1111 111101 10 10 10 1111 11100 1 1 1 001 11111 1 1 1 111 11001 10 10 10 101 11010 01 111 010 01 010 01 01 11 1111 101 11 111 11 10001111 11001 1001 1001 11 1111011 111 01 01 1111 11111111 111 1101 101 110110 1011011 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 1,042 |
| Words | 248 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 9, 5, 5, 5, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 69 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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being stuck in our though
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