Analysis of Ghetto love




It's early in the morning and i just woke up

As i look around the room i see the note you put up

Telling me your sorry but you just had to leave

No warning the night before, it was so fun and free

Now your gone and i am alone and left to heal

My reward for all that fun we had, a 300$ hotel bill

That's it, no love for me, no smile, no goodbye

All i can think of the whole time is a simple why

Why you left without saying a word, just up and vanished

Times like these are so real that all i can do is stay mannish

To avoid the pain, the heartache, the reality that i now face

All that moaning and groaning and now you've left without a trace

Of you on the face of the earth, seems unreal until i'm he only one here still

Kind of crazy ain't it? That it could happen to me that way

Thinking back on all those years of having all the right words to say

Now it's me done like a normal man, all alone with my heart open

As if it was for me the whole time that this action was chosen

Something so real yet like a dream and now it's over that fast

Seems just last night that i knew this would have to last

Forever and ever because of the way we kissed and cuddled

The way we massaged each other as i watched your breast juggle

The way your hair swang left to right as you moved across the bed

The soft words i thought before each words i said

Then all of a sudden, came a knock at the  door and i got dressed

I didn't order any room service so who could it be i guessed

As i open the door the smell of perfume hit me and then i saw your

Brown paper-bag and that's when it hit me, the whole time you just went to the liquor store


Scheme A A X X X B C C X X D D B E E F F G G X X H H I I J J
Poetic Form
Metre 110001001111 11101011101111 101110111111 1100101111101 111011010111 1011111110011 1111111111 1111101110101 11101100111010 11111111111111 10101010101111 111001001110101 11101101101011110111 111011111101111 1011111110101111 11111010110111110 1111110111110110 101111010111011 111111111111 0100100110111010 011011101111110 011111111110101 01111011111 1110101011010111 11010101101111111 111001011011101111 110101111101111110101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,596
Words 344
Sentences 2
Stanzas 27
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 46
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 46
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on December 13, 2012

Modified on March 18, 2023

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