Analysis of I am Going to Die in Your Arms Tonight
Melody Rogers 1960 (Ashland Kansas)
Watch, I am going to tear the moon right out of the sky. I will do it and never even ask why... the pain that I feel has chained me.... like a fool... to fall in the pool of your eyes...it no surprise...I was never all that strong... and it didnt take all that long to break me, cause you wouldn't take me and make me your own.
I am going to put out the sun... it has shined its last... it is done... and with it, all my fortunes lost and won... I begin again, I've begun to become undone. I am unraveled, mangled and sore put upon... and I long to die my death within your arms.
Take me now, this is how I was to go...
Lying in your arms, breathing slow...
I take all the I knowledge that I know
And I will take a puff and out I will blow...
Angel's will come and go around me and show Me how to walk the walk to the rainbow.
I feel the strength of your grasp.... as I sit upon your lap. I would look for hope but I dont know where it is at. I quiver like a mouse that had been caught by a cat. I feel lost like I was lost in a lover's spat. How can I work this out... my world is become black?
And shadows, they are all the same color... no matter what color you are. I wish upon a prayer, I wish upon a star... i will always reach out to you, no matter where you are. .I know I will be going ... I just don't know how far....but I am counting my blessings, tallying the score.
Pent up like cattle penned inside a farm....I need you now to take some shape and form... so save me from life's decrepit harm... I started new, but now I am worn. The Least of all the children that were ever born... from sunset to the early morn, but just let me die safely in your arms.
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111011011110111110101011011111111011100111111110111011111111111101101111 111011101111111110111110101101011011010111010100110101111110111 1111111111 10011101 1110110111 01110101111 1110101101111101101 1101111111011111111111111111101011111101111111100101111111111011 0111101101101101111010111010111111111101111111110111111111011010001 111101010111111110111111010111011111101110101010111101011111110011 |
Characters | 1,659 |
Words | 350 |
Sentences | 40 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 121 |
Words per line (avg) | 35 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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