Analysis of The lie that could be?

Jade Monty O'Neill 1969 (Pretoria)



Those sticky truths that failed to land
That were making you look, so very bland
That were hard to forget and causing the cringe
That drove you to lie and right to the fringe

The stress that you felt as the words often stumbled
That you tried to remember, the lie that had crumbled
That had tripped you up, not because it was untrue
But rather your forgetting, that the lie was not you

Then at some point you hoped, yourself you would find
But have found, it was only their love, you had left behind
Because living the dream you created to come true
Never turned out to be the person that was you


Scheme AABB CCDD EEDD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11011111 1010111101 10110101001 1111101101 011111011010 1111010011110 111111011101 1101010101111 11111101111 11111101111101 0110011010111 101111010111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 596
Words 115
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 158
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted by Jadestes on February 26, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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