Analysis of Circling maze of fooling tears
I can see the way you're looking
the way you're looking
for a way out this maze
of constant fooling
this maze of schooling
The walls are curving
all around you
will you keep on going?
will you keep on searching?
I can see the way you're crying
the way you're crying
looks like you're praying
to a god you just made
yeah you just made
I bet He's kind with lots of mercy
quick with mercy
He's very kind to keep you going
keep on going
Keep on fooling
in this maze that's ever fooling
ever schooling
wrapped in soothing
voices you made
full of mercy
the god you just made
seems to have left you
I bet he's left you
all alone to be laid
down with mercy
down with mercy
I can see you're looking
you keep on searching
for all the wrong mercy
these walls are fooling
Yet you keep on spinning
round in circles
round in circles
trail of tears
they fell because there was not mercy
there was no mercy
from the god that you made
that god that you just made
So you kept on going
Kept on searching
for an escape from this maze
until the end of days
In this maze
this maze of fooling
Scheme | aa baa acaa aa add ee aaa aaad edcc d EE aaea aFFx eedd aabb ba |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 01110 101111 11010 11110 01110 1011 111110 111110 11101110 01110 11110 101111 1111 111111110 1110 110111110 1110 1110 01111010 1010 1010 1011 1110 01111 11111 11111 101111 1110 1110 111110 11110 110110 11110 111110 1010 1010 111 110111110 11110 101111 111111 111110 1110 1101111 010111 011 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,022 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 1, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on October 16, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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