Analysis of Spiritual jargon
Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)
They hate those words
That might set them free
I'm lost in a forest
Out to sea
I'm still just a child
In a world so big
Not knowing where to turn
Not knowing when to speak
The spiritual world got me all messed up
I thought I knew something
I'm actually stuck
My head is swimming
With a thousand little thoughts
Even though outside of me
People are distraught
My beliefs won't change anything
But they never die
They're stuck in my head
And they make me dry
I can't speak to others
I don't know what to say
At a point I knew everything
Now it's just decayed
Into a million little pieces
Of who I once was
I've regressed to the point of innocence
Yet I'm still so lost
I'm no good at poetry
I can't write worth a damn
I stretch and try and push
And it still comes out like garbage
I wish I was smart like the others
I try so hard
They all know more than me now
I'm tired and charred
Like a log set ablaze
By its own dying ember
Maybe someday I'll realize
What it's like to remember
Scheme | X A X A X X X X X B X B X A X B C X C D X B X X X X X A X X X D E X E X F X F |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 11111 110010 111 11101 00111 110111 110111 01000111111 111110 11001 11110 1010101 1011111 10101 1011110 11101 11011 01111 111110 111111 1011110 11101 010101010 11111 111011100 11111 1111100 111101 110101 01111110 111111010 1111 1111111 11001 101101 1111010 101110 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,034 |
Words | 252 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 39 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 20 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted by kbdallas2020 on March 20, 2024
Modified by kbdallas2020 on March 20, 2024
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