Analysis of Nikita - you'll never know...oh well.
Hey Nikita is it cold
In your little corner of the world
You could roll around the globe
And never find a warmer soul to know
Oh I saw you by the wall
Ten of your tin soldiers in a row
With eyes that looked like ice on fire
The human heart a captive in the snow
Oh Nikita You will never know anything about my home
I'll never know how good it feels to hold you
Nikita I need you so
Oh Nikita is the other side of any given line in time
Counting ten tin soldiers in a row
Oh no, Nikita you'll never know
Do you ever dream of me
Do you ever see the letters that I write
When you look up through the wire
Nikita do you count the stars at night
And if there comes a time
Guns and gates no longer hold you in
And if you're free to make a choice
Just look towards the west and find a friend
(-- Elton John "Nikita" - ""Nikita" is a love song by English singer Elton John set in the Cold War from his 1985 album Ice on Fire. Released late in the year, the song was a top ten hit in many countries.")
Scheme | XXXA XABA XXACAA XDBD CXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 011010101 1110101 0101010111 1111101 111110001 111111110 0101010001 11011101100111 11011111111 101111 1101010111010101 101110001 11101101 1110111 11101010111 11111010 101110111 011101 101110110 01111101 1101010101 10110101011110101011001111101110011001011011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,000 |
Words | 215 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on January 08, 2021
Modified on March 21, 2023
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