Analysis of Tell Me
Who am I
without you?
A man
with half a heart?
A lover
without his intended?
A lost soul
without a Heaven to go to?
And who are you
without me?
A girl with just the scar
of my beating heart?
A beautiful shadow
too far to stand beside?
A real Heaven
my life is no longer bound to?
Tell me, Love,
before it’s too late,
and too far gone…
Are we merely a lie
we can never leave behind?
Are we questions that can only be asked,
but never answered?
Or are we a vital truth
still left to find?
Tell me, Love.
| Scheme | ab xc xx xb bx xc xx xb Dxx ae xx xe D |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 011 01 1101 010 011010 011 01010111 0111 011 011101 11101 01001 111101 0110 11111011 111 01111 0111 111001 1110101 1110111011 11010 1110101 1111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 543 |
| Words | 137 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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