Analysis of My Guitar Will Never Turn Me Down



Sittin’ in my room all day long
Strummin’ my guitar and hittin’ the bong
I write 15 maybe 20 songs
But there’s no one here to sing along
Sittin’ in my room all day long

I Wanna Be Sedated on the radio
So I strum along with The Ramones
“Nothing to do, nowhere to go”
“I can’t control my fingers and I can’t control my toes”
“Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go loco!”

No way to explain what’s been done
I’ve been spun into oblivion
I’m feeling dumb, stuck down in a funk
Cuz my girlfriend left me for no one
So I grab my guitar and hit the distortion!

Cuz she’s the only one who’ll never let me down
She’s the only one who’ll always be found
She’s the only one who’ll never kick me out
She’ll take it quiet but she likes it loud
My guitar will never turn me down

Her six necklaces of silver and bronze
Sound so sweet with the chorus on
To pic, pluck, bend, stretch, slide, and strum
All night long ‘til the new day comes
Broken strings will never break our bonds

Her ebony body of twisted curves
Always able to settle my nerves
When I press my body up against hers
She gives me a feeling so superb
She’s the greatest thing you’ve never heard

Even when my fingers are broken and bruised
Even when my amp’s got a blown out fuse
Even when I got nothing more to lose
In the middle of the night at half past two
My guitar will cure my blues

Cuz she’s the only one who’ll never let me down
She’s the only one who’ll always be found
She’s the only one who’ll never kick me out
She’ll take it quiet but she likes it loud
My guitar will never turn me down


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Poetic Form Etheree  (23%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1011111 11010101 11101 111111101 1011111 11010101010 11101101 1011111 11011100110111 101010011110 11101011 111010100 110111001 11111111 111101010010 110101110111 101011111 10101110111 1111011111 101110111 0110011001 11110101 11111101 11110111 1011101101 0100101101 11011011 1111101010 111010101 101011101 10111011001 1011110111 1011110111 00101011111 1011111 110101110111 101011111 10101110111 1111011111 101110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,616
Words 317
Sentences 3
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 149
Words per stanza (avg) 39

About this poem

A love song to my guitar because she is always there for me.

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Written on February 14, 2016

Submitted by Trevdowell on June 12, 2023

1:35 min read
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Trevor Logan

Trevor Logan is a quiet poet who enjoys wildlife and gardening. He struggles with drug-resistant temporal-lobe epilepsy, which is a major influence on his writing as it causes hypergraphia (an almost uncontrollable urge to write). His poetry can be found on Instagram @AnEpilepticsPoetics https://instagram.com/anepilepticspoetics?igshid=ZDdkNTZiNTM= more…

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