Analysis of I've Been There
I have felt the gun you hold now.
The steel cold against my temple.
Listening to the click of the trigger,
Smelling the powder in the bullets,
It's metallic taste on my tongue.
Embracing the finality of it all.
An end to loneliness, despair, and pain.
Somehow I survived it.
I made it through until morning.
Every night, until morning.
Then morning until night.
The pain didn't go away,
But with the help of God,
And a few of his good people,
The loneliness did,
And took with it the despair.
And pain shared is pain lessened.
Let me share your pain,
As you have helped me carry mine.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 01101110 1001011010 100100010 10101111 01000100111 1111000101 11011 11110110 10010110 110011 0110101 110111 00111110 01001 0111001 0111110 11111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 452 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on March 24, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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