Analysis of In Control



You can't break my heart.
Or take away my soul.
As if a clock to make it stop.
To start again to resell it sold.

Too long I have been,
On my own familiar road.
Facing obstacles.
You assumed to believe in your control.

In my control,
Is what I choose to think.
Before I decide,
Which move forward I should take.

And I continue to do so.
Without letting my emotions,
Show to expose to anyone including you...
That I refuse to make excuses,
For whatever it is others may do.

No!
You can't break my heart.
Been there to have done that.
Never again to allow that to happen.

You can't take away my soul.
As if a clock to make my hopes I dream,
Come to a stop. No! I'm not the one.
My faith is too strong to accept that done!


Scheme Abxx xxxb bxxx cxdxd cAxe bxee
Poetic Form Tetractys  (24%)
Metre 11111 110111 11011111 110110111 11111 1110101 10100 1011010101 0101 111111 0111 1110111 01010111 01101010 11011100101 110111010 110111011 1 11111 111111 10011011110 1110111 1101111111 110111101 1111110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 723
Words 174
Sentences 21
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Written on September 28, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on September 28, 2023

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