Analysis of Why Can't You Be Wrong?
My life is not your game.
You assumed I was guilty,
Only to be proven wrong.
But you won't admit it,
Not to me
Nor to yourself.
So now you search for something
Absolutely anything I may do wrong.
Yet I remain vigilant with every move.
I stay obsessed with being careful,
Watch and be proven wrong again.
Pressure builds against you.
Now you move,
Interfering with my mental health treatment.
Speaking unfounded accusations.
Forcing a choice between a therapist I trust,
Or be banned from my two weekly groups.
There is no decision to make.
I have been helped by only this person,
After many failed me.
I walked away from the groups.
What do you so dislike about me?
Continue this game you began,
And it will all be on you, true guilt.
Keep pushing to be right and I promise you
The entire thing will backfire.
Scheme | XABXAX XBCXX DCXXXE XXAE AXXDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 1011110 1011101 111011 111 1101 1111110 010101111 110110011001 110111010 10110101 101011 111 0101110110 10010010 100101010011 111111101 11101011 1111110110 101011 1101101 111101011 01011101 011111111 11011101101 0010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 784 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 6, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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