Analysis of Fear
tears fall from her eyes but none of her peers quite know why...
shes attractive, she never acted out of place or out of touch
she knew a lot, but she didn't say too much
and if you were true to her
she promised to show you something beautiful
but who knew?
she lied
and a little piece of me died
it seems wrong that i still care
cause i know she doesn't.
maybe because she never cared the way i do
or maybe she was scared to show me the truth
either way i know its over
and i wouldn't be mad
but the way she did it is just so sad
she was scared to say that she choose another path
or in the simple way of speaking that she choose another man
but for about a week she showed her weakness
the fear of confrontation or the fear of hurting someone.
now you were scared to hurt me.
but you weren't sad i was hurt
you fucking fear is what cut me the worst
your afraid of the pain
and afraid to play this game
at least with some one who hasn't stood in the same rain as you
but if you showed me the truth
i would've known what to do
i would've known how to hold you, sitting alone in a room
but you didn't
so im sitting here wishing things were different.
and although i know you wont admit it,
it hurt you to get away with it.
Scheme | ABBCDEFFGHEICJJKLMNOPQRSEIETHHUU |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111101111 1010110101111111 11011110111 0110110 11011110100 111 11 00101111 1111111 111110 100111010111 11011111101 10111110 011011 1011111111 111111110101 1001011101110101 11010111010 0110101011101 1101111 11101111 1101111101 101101 0011111 111111101001111 1111101 1101111 110111111001001 1110 111011010100 011111011 111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,190 |
Words | 254 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 947 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 254 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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