Analysis of Boys Don't Cry
There upon the table
Lies my sullen art
How you wear my fate
How you rule my heart
This the craft that binds
Composing from the mind
A tale that every boy,
Well learn to write in time
An empty pint of beer
Will refill itself with tears
A warm gun will recommend
How to fix, what does offend
The wild beast within
Rages when the injury
Takes him by the neck
And brings him to his knees
Then like slaughter hogs
We become the sacrifice,
Begging women's tears
To conjure back to ice
But in some other way
We keep tears away
Napalm clears a field
When the enemy won't yield
I'm thinking like a man
Not giving a d*mn
So you wear my fate
Like love disguised as hate
Cast these rages aside
Give them time they'll dry
No! These tears won't fall
I'll walk proud and tall
But there'll be a time
Every mans been there
Yet they will never know
Just how much we cared.
Scheme | XABA XXXC XDEE FXXX XGDG HHII XFBB XXJJ CXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (44%) |
Metre | 101010 11101 11111 11111 10111 010101 0111001 111101 110111 1100111 011101 1111101 01101 1010100 11101 011111 11101 101010 10101 110111 101101 11101 10101 1010011 110101 110011 11111 110111 111001 11111 11111 11101 110101 100111 111101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 855 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 10, 2023
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