Analysis of Avocado Skies
Green storm clouds gather and rise
Paint me a picture of avocado skies
Caught myself sayin'
Bring on the lightning
Bring on the lies
As if I haven't heard it half a million times
I left the tornados when I left you
In the dust of Texas
Where the bonnets stay blue
Seems California doesn't hail quite like I'm used to
Storms roll through
Never able to hit me quite like you used to
Trouble follows me
I wear it like jewelry
Picking gold poppies off the street is child’s play, comparatively
Frame the moment wildflowers were worth the jail time
I remember you at the courthouse paying the fine
California feelin' Texas
Trappin's the only way you pay your back taxes
Find me in a Lexus
Passin' time with white lines
Flying high swerving county signs
Traded stockyards for surfboards
praying and more time outdoors
Wish I could turn back the time
See the world without tainted eyes
It's been two years now
But with every storm
I still catch myself haunted by your demise
Scheme | AA BXAX CDC CCC EE EFB DXDGG XXFABXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001 1101010101 111 11010 1101 111101110101 110011111 001110 10111 101010111111 111 101011111111 10101 1111100 1011010111101000 1010101011 101011011001 010110 10101111110 110010 11111 1011101 10111 1001111 1111101 10101101 11111 111001 1111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 979 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 3, 3, 2, 3, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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