Analysis of I Refuse
I refuse to go down to the pit.
I refuse to let my mind be depress.
I refuse to give my talents and gifts rest.
I refuse not to be the best.
I refuse to feel defeated again.
I refuse to give in.
I refuse to be sick.
I refuse to give my enemies authority over me.
I refuse to let my soul be wounded.
I refuse to just lie down and die.
I refuse to quit.
I refuse to get angry and have fits.
I refuse to be scared to shine.
I refuse to give the enemy my mind.
I refuse to be use for evil.
I refuse to not see and hear with God spiritual eyes and ears.
I refuse to be but in a category, for I am unique.
I refuse to feel bad because you don’t know who I am.
Go to God for the answers to define me;
because, God created me different,
and only He can describe to you, who I am.
Because I refuse all of this!
Scheme | AXBBXX XCXXA XXXXX XDCXDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111101 1011111101 10111110011 10111101 1011101001 101110 101111 1011111000100101 1011111110 101111101 10111 1011110011 10111111 10111010011 101111110 10111101111000101 1011110010011101 10111101111111 11110101011 0110101100 010110111111 01101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 782 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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