Analysis of I Don't Know You Anymore



I don't see you anymore, you've blended with the night
Like the stars after dawn
you've faded out of sight

I don't know you anymore, you've mixed a witches' brew
Like chameleons alter,
you've changed into a shrew

I don't hear you anymore, you've joined a raucous spin
Like thunder in a storm
you've mingled with the din

I don't want you anymore, you've turned beauty to ash
Like city-dump rubbish
you've landed in the trash

I don't smell you anymore, you've become common clone
Like the olfaction wane
you've lost lust pheromone

I don't kiss you anymore, you've caused lovers to dread
Like puckish courtesans
you've made your fickle bed

I don't touch you anymore, you've relinquished gestalt
Like pillars of Lot's wife
you've transmuted to salt

I don't heed you anymore, you've jabbered trite affairs
Like a monotonous drone
you've buzzed till no one cares

I don't love you anymore, you've splintered surety bond
Like unanswered curtain calls
you've failed to respond


Scheme AXA BXB CXC DXD EXE FGF AXX GEG HGH
Poetic Form
Metre 111101110101 101101 110111 111101110101 1110 110101 111101110101 110001 110101 111101111011 110110 110001 111101101101 1011 11110 111101111011 1101 111101 11110110101 110111 1111 11110111101 1001001 111111 1111011101001 110101 11101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 941
Words 164
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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