Analysis of Jealousy
Your green eyes betray me,
Your wicked tongue deceives.
How can one be so enticing,
And so utterly diseased?
Your apparition alludes me,
You shift at every turn.
Yet you are always with me,
In a different shape or form.
How can I find peace,
In this cruel and hateful world?
Your tendrils of suspicion
Cannot be assuaged or turned.
You are spiteful, malicious,
In your quiet ways.
Planting seeds of envy
So that we may go astray.
Many pretty faces,
Trifles, charms, and treats
Are the way that you seduce us,
But I have seen the truth of your odious deeds.
How can we be rid of you,
I ask on pleading knees?
We must be content with our lot,
For we shall never, never, be free.
But we must continue sanguinity,
For that may be the key.
Scheme | ABXC AXAX BXXX BBAX BBBB XBXA CA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 11011 11111010 0110001 1010011 1111001 111111 00100111 11111 01100101 111010 1010111 1110010 01101 101110 1111101 101010 10101 10111011 111101111001 1111111 111101 111101101 111101011 1110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 709 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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