Analysis of When I was once yours
When I was once yours you told me you'd never leave me,
Then I found out you lied about that and you set me free,
Is it right for you to lie and is that any better than what I did to you,
I remember how cruel you were when you said we were through,
I remember you telling me it was forever,
Forever has now became never,
Is it right for you to lie,
And make me cry,
I guess you can do that and it makes it o.k.,
So what if you lied to me that is not abuse to you,
You told your friends a week ago you would stay for the long haul,
I guess forever ended now is the curtain call,
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEBFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111111011 11111101101111 11111110111010111111 101011010111101 1010110111010 010110110 1111111 0111 111111011111 11111111110111 111101011111011 1101010110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 566 |
| Words | 127 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 437 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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