Analysis of Deny
Insulate. Detach. Deny.
Tempt fate. Bait and switch. Deny.
Overcompensate. What's this? Deny.
Open hate. Can't miss. Deny.
Without need. Dying. Deny.
Plant the seed. Among the crying. Deny.
For the Truth they bleed. You're lying. Deny.
Only Greed. Everyone's buying. Deny.
Alone I cower. Bygone. Deny.
Mind soured. Move along. Deny.
Hour after hour. Same song. Deny
Dead Flowers. Waited too long. Deny.
Sky seems alone. Abated. Deny.
Hardest stone. Outdated. Deny.
On I roam. As I stated. Deny.
On the winds I'm blown. Deflated. Deny.
Without a sense of circumstance or idle thought toward consequence I gave my lot to happenstance and left my life in such a mess.
Without regret I move along or so I'm told as I progress into the final stanza of my final song And seek my one true final test.
To find myself without control or say in all the world's affairs
Having reached my one true final goal of not even really being there.
Scheme | AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) |
Metre | 100101 1110101 11101 1011101 0111001 1010101001 1011111001 101101001 01110101 11010101 1010101101 110101101 110101001 1011001 111111001 1011101001 0101110110101100111111001110101 01011101111111101010101110101111101 111010111010101 101111101111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 913 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 50 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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