Analysis of Innocent



Who is the person to blame?
When you feel so scared, and think in vain.
Who should be at fault for your shame?
When the one who should love you is responsible for your pain.
A child looking at you so innocent and sweet,
How could you make that child go through so much?
You smile, and look at her with defeat,
You never even think of giving her a loving touch.
That child looks at you with pain in her eyes,
You don’t notice she is almost done,
She only looks at you with despise,
But yet you can still smile and have fun.
You can’t have a normal mind,
You do things so inhumanely ,
Unfortunately a person like you isn’t one of a kind,
But you have had less control here lately.
You can’t hide forever behind the tears of a clown,
You were never there for me I know that now,
You turned my world upside down,
But I made it out of there somehow.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Metre 1101011 111110101 11111111 101111110100111 011011110001 1111111111 110110101 11010111000101 1111111001 11101111 110111101 111111011 1110101 11111 010000101111101 1111101110 1110100101101 10101111111 1111111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 833
Words 168
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 650
Words per stanza (avg) 169
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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