Analysis of Little by Little
Little by little
Day by day
Time after time
She’d fade away
Little by little
She lost her way
Time after time
Day by day
She’s left pieces of herself behind
Let her anxiety take control
Standing here unrefined
Waiting for her thunder to roll
Water flows from her eyes steady
Holding on to a tattered rope
Everyday her troubles weigh heavy
Lost her ability to cope
Little by little
Day by day
Time after time
She’d fade away
Little by little
She lost her way
Time after time
Day by day
Abandoned faith left out to dry
No longer will she believe
Little by little her heart has died
It’s getting harder to conceive
Echos of the painful screams
From haunted voices of guilt
She has lost the power of dreams
Crashing down the walls she built
Little by little
Day by day
Time after time
She’d fade away
Little by little
She lost her way
Time after time
Day by day
| Scheme | ABCBABCB dedefgfg ABCBABCB xhxhijij ABCBABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) |
| Metre | 10110 111 1101 1101 10110 1101 1101 111 111010101 100100101 10101 10101011 10110110 10110101 101010110 10010011 10110 111 1101 1101 10110 1101 1101 111 01011111 1101101 101100111 11010101 1010101 1101011 11101011 1010111 10110 111 1101 1101 10110 1101 1101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 1,445 |
| Words | 189 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 40 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
This is about a woman I knew. She had depression and anxiety issues . Some days were worse then others. In the end she is no more. I was unable to turn her around.
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Written on March 06, 2033
Submitted by Stevepuls0830 on March 08, 2023
Modified on April 30, 2023
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