Analysis of Cheating and losing
How's your high horse?
Must be nice.
I'm on my way to 6ft under.
Cast asunder by my friends
Because I fucked up.
I can look you in the eyes and realise
I'm in the wrong
But your body and your movement
Hold my gaze a beat too long.
And by that time, I'm the bad guy.
I'm depressed because he's right;
I couldn't say no when it started that night.
And now I'm hollow all the time
Mostly when I'm with my friends
Because the truth tears at my insides
And the silence makes me nervous.
They all know.
People know.
It's on my face.
I'm screaming it.
It's tearing me apart.
| Scheme | AXXB X ACXC XDD XBXX EEXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 111 11111110 1010111 01111 111100101 1001 11100110 1110111 01111011 1010111 11011111011 01110101 1011111 010111101 00101110 111 101 1111 1101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 550 |
| Words | 113 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 4, 3, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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