Analysis of Why
Why did you come back, if you didn't want to stay?
My feelings are real and not for you to play
Why do I still love you and still care a lot?
It's something I'm pondering; an interesting thought.
Don't tell me you miss me and want me to write
When most of the time you stay out of my sight
I want to be caring, understanding and nice.
In your absence - this relationship? - I'm questioning it twice!
I don't understand; why do I still care ?
When all I can feel is immense despair.
My feelings are waning and in time will be gone.
Then you'll probably be wondering where you went wrong.
James Barnett - April 2012
| Scheme | AAXX BBCC DDXX X |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111110111 11011011111 11111101101 110110011001 11111101111 11101111111 11111001001 01101010110011 110111111 1111110101 110110001111 1110011001111 10110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 601 |
| Words | 120 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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