Analysis of Sorry, I Just Couldn't Make It
Fell in love
In Chicago. . .
Doing homework.
It felt like I fell off a building,
Or passed out after a day of fasting.
It hit me as hard as not finding a parking place at dinnertime.
Do you see the sleep lines of my face?
I obviously have still not recovered
Because I can't find my shoes,
All my clothes are dirty,
And I don't have anything to wear.
My heart has been taken hostage,
And I can't stop dialing for help.
I feel I've been abducted by aliens.
I wake up and can't walk.
I've got 24-hour amnesia
All the time.
I know I'm in Chicago but,
Am I still in love?
Scheme | ABCDDEFGHIJKLMNOEPA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 001 101 111111010 1111001110 1111111100101110 111011111 11000111010 0111111 111110 01111011 11111010 011110011 11110101100 111011 1110010 101 1110011 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 549 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 427 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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