Analysis of Let me be the shoulder, on which you lean.



Let me be the shoulder, on which you lean.
I want to do this, I think you're pretty keen.

I vent to you, and you're there for me all the time.
Helping you would make me feel simply sublime.

I know you're not this fragile girl anymore.
But believe me, you've never been a chore!

You act like you're a nuisance, that you constantly drag me down.
When in reality, you are the reason, that I no longer wear my frown.

You helped me cleanse this old, broken, and tainted soul of mine.
You're the very reason, that I am happy, the reason that I'm fine!

So don't take my reason for being, and throw it away.
I just want you by my side, forever and ever to stay!!!

You are a part of me, my twin, we share the same heart and soul.
When you don't lean on me, your absence leaves a giant hole!


Scheme AA BB CC DD EE FF GG
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1110101111 11111111101 111101111101 10111111001 1111110101 1011110101 111101011100111 10101101011110111 11111110010111 10101011110010111 11111011001101 111111101001011 110111111101101 11111111010101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 768
Words 156
Sentences 15
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by honey1570 on July 02, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Elizabeth King

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