Analysis of When I Speak, I Am Not Heard
I feel alone in the night
Not listened to anytime.
Whether my voice is a whisper
or a loud cry,
When I speak, I am not heard.
My ears are always open
Everytime someone speaks, I listen.
I try to hear everything that is said
But when I speak, I am not heard.
Everyone else has wants and needs,
Assumes that I will have what they need,
or give them what they want.
But when I try to give them
What they want and need,
And do not succeed,
I tell them I cannot achieve,
When I speak, I am not heard.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001 110110 10111010 1011 1111111 111110 1011110 111110111 11111111 1011101 011111111 111111 1111111 11101 01101 11111001 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 378 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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