Analysis of Hateful



You can't make me feel inferior without my permission
And if you'd stop and take the time
To pay attention and listen

I would help you understand
Realize and see
You do not get to spread around your misery

Whatever is going on
Inside your heart and mind
If you'd just put forth some effort I'm sure you would find  

A way to heal your pain
And a better way to live  
You would truly feel much better if you'd just forgive  

Those that made you what you are
And yourself for allowing it so
Listen to what I say for you really need to know 

If you choose not to heed this warning
That's entirely up to you    
But know that there is one thing that you do not get to do  

And that is spread your pain to others
And to spread is not to share  
For that dark place in which you reside, no one else wants to go there 

The darkness that is in your spirit
You seem determined to let stay
And spreading it to everyone you meet each and every day

Speaking from experience
Yes please take it from me
There is so to so more to life and a better way that you can be

It occurred to me the other day
That maybe you do not see
That being hateful to others won't offer you the relief that you seek     

The only thing that will heal you inside
Is by taking it to Him    
So get on your knees and let it go and truly start to live  

Without the hatred and without the pain    
Just lay it all at the foot of the cross  
And then my friend you can live in love and not hatefulness, pain, and loss


Scheme AXA XBB XCC DEX XFF XGG XHH XII XBB IBX XXE DJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 111110100011010 01110101 11010010 111101 1001 111111011100 101101 011101 1111111011111 011111 0010111 1110111011101 1111111 001101011 1011111110111 111111110 10100111 11111111111111 011111110 0111111 1111011011111111 010110110 11010111 010111011101001 1010100 111111 11111111001011111 101110101 1101111 110101101101001111 0101111101 1110111 111110111010111 0101000101 1111101101 011111101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,487
Words 286
Sentences 1
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on August 29, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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