Analysis of I Promised I'd Never Leave (Don't make a liar out of me...)
Neither of us can sleep.
You had to ask,
But you knew before I could speak.
I let you down.
As I lose to confusion and fear,
I begin to drown.
You regret your words.
You regret mine even more;
Each unspoken a silent sword.
But still you’re willing to fight.
I just don’t have it in me.
I’d rather give in to the night.
In sad quiet we sit,
For fear of decisions to be made.
I know it is up to me,
But either price is too high to be paid.
All night we will swim through our tears,
But tomorrow, we will face my biggest fear
Scheme | XXXABA XXXCDC XEDEXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 1111 11101111 1111 111101001 10111 10111 1011101 10100101 1111011 1111101 11010101 011011 111010111 1111111 1101111111 111111101 1011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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