Analysis of Payback
Payback is a mongrel when it comes round.
And that is what this boy will find.
His parents thinks he's such an angel,
and couldn't do wrong.
He won't be singing his footy song.
His career has ended before it begun,
and all this for a boy who couldn't do wrong.
Why didn't he talk to the Police,
why didn't he put his parents minds at peace.
He has walked away from this scott free,
but this is not how it's gonna be.
And because his lawyer said tell no-one,
he has given him a chance to do it again.
The next little girl won't get to say goodbye,
because in his hands she will die.
He did the crime he should do the time.
Scheme | ABCDDEDFFGGEHIIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 01111111 110111110 01011 11110111 10111001101 01110111011 110111001 11011110111 111011111 111111101 0011101111 111010111101 0110111111 01011111 110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on November 04, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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