Analysis of Like red on a rose, fading to black.



Heartache cripples through my veins with such sorrow
Jealousy is a tendency I would never have to borrow
Love bursts through my dreams in a fairy tale world
Reality never made sense, lost in the moment, sweet girl.

Hope lingers on with the sounds of a slow song
Laughter fades through all the lonely days that went wrong
Happiness disappears through the tears that cause me to drown
Faith drops at the fall of a hat, nowhere to be found.

The damage is done, there is no turning back
It's like the red on a rose, fading to black
The thunder rolls, the clouds are dark
My heart is bleeding the pain, of a needle so sharp

So I Run far away, no longer am I ready to feel this pain
Pictures capture the moments that will forever be changed
Change mortifies us all when our walls are so strong
Loneliness captures me, there are no more reasons to hang on


Scheme AAXX BBXX CCXX XXBX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111110 100101001110111 11111001011 1010111001011 11011011011 101110101111 1000110111111 111011011111 01011111101 11011011011 01010111 1111001101011 11110111011101111 10100101101011 11111101111 100101111110111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 833
Words 161
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 169
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Submitted on September 07, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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