Analysis of Red says the sunset
Close my eyes, paint a picture…
Take me back to a time when I was just a kid.
The world around me was ever growing
And there was a sweet innocence in everything I did.
The morning sun was my smile,
Her warm words whispered on my skin... and
Red says the sunset, red says the sunset,
How I needed a friend…
To share all this happiness that I thought could never end.
The city was my playground, an enchanted new land ready to explore…
Abandon structures, hidden places near rushing railroads, giant puddles from thunder storms
Rainbows arched leading right to my front door.
And red says the sunset again every day,
Red says the sunset come out and play.
If I could only go back,
To lying on lazy days in the tall grass,
To wading after minnows in a little brook pass.
To jumping dangerously from rooftops,
Climbing trees, skinning knees,
Learning to start a fire from one little match.
In the afternoons it was huge, it was…
Red says the sunset all over again, red says the sunset,
This time I had found a friend.
To share in my adventures,
This truly was not the end.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFGGHIHJJKLLMNOPFGQG |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010 111101111101 0101111010 0110110001011 0101111 011101110 11011101 111001 11111001111101 01011110101110101 010101010110110101101 111011111 01101011001 11011101 1111011 11011010011 1101010001011 110100011 10111 101101011101 000111111 1101110011101 1111101 1101010 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 1,052 |
| Words | 200 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 25 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 836 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 200 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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