Analysis of Truth
I laughed all the way to heaven,
Once he told me the truth.
I thought you were like seven
The number of hocus,pocus jokes
But your face told me otherwise.
“Truth can be hurtful”, he exclaimed,
“But the truth has to be set free.
This relationship was not to be
And never will...”
Drip, drip; my tears fall down.
“We liv’n lots of lies with no love in between.
Why travel on together if we are a broken string,
Why make things worse when our minds say yes, but our hearts say no?!”
His words pierced me like a knife,
But I knew his words spook truth.
Life is true, but truth is never life.
It pains me to know this is right.
My appetite is lost.
I’ll never be the same without him,
But this is life an’ that will always be the TRUTH
Scheme | ABAXX XCCX X XXXDB DXXXB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11101110 111101 1110110 010111 1111110 11110101 10111111 10101111 0101 111111 11111111001 11010101110101 1111110111110111 1111101 1111111 111111101 11111111 11011 110101011 11111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 729 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 1, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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