Analysis of Little Pip



Hey!
Hey…
What have you done today?
Where have you been?
And tell me, who have you seen?
When I look in your eyes,
I know –
I know...
...you’ve been sat here,
talking to ghosts.

I, I can see.
All that you want to do is talk
to me
and sleep.
So I lie,
oh how I lie,
to give you peace -
Coz the truth isn’t kind, I believe.

And when you look at your hands
you always seem so surprised.
They’re covered in lines –
weathered by time.
So hold out your hands
Let me warm them in mine.
Let me tell you,
your hands seem fine.

(Forgive me
Forgive me)

And when the ghosts talk to you,
though there’s nobody there,
I’ll play along –
and raise my hat to nothing but air;
coz all that I want,
all that I seek,
all that I dream –
is to relieve
a little of this madness
that you
get to
sleep.

When you look at your hands
you always seem so surprised.
They’re covered in lines –
weathered by time.
So hold out your hands –
let me warm them in mine.
let me tell you –
your hands
feel like
pieces of ice
(it’s breaking my heart)
Take it from me –
they look just fine.


Scheme AAaxxxBBxx cxcdeexf gHIJGKLk CC lmxmxxxfxlld gHIJGKLgxxxck
Poetic Form
Metre 1 1 111101 1111 0111111 111011 11 11 1111 1011 1111 11111111 11 01 111 1111 1111 10111101 0111111 111101 11001 1011 11111 111101 1111 1111 011 011 0101111 1111 1101 011111011 11111 1111 1111 1101 0101110 11 11 1 111111 111101 11001 1011 11111 111101 1111 11 11 1011 11011 1111 1111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 1,086
Words 252
Sentences 19
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 10, 8, 8, 2, 12, 13
Lines Amount 53
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 129
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted by Sleekwood on May 12, 2024

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