Analysis of You Dont Need Me
Don't turn your back like that
it will only hurt you, see
your stubbornness is really melting you
not setting you free.
Those rose bushes wrap
their loving arms around you
but really just tear and rip you apart
you don't need me, just what destroys your heart.
And what I really need
Is what makes me bleed
my cunning disease
lord, you don't need me
don't need me
you don't need me.
I can only give you miles and miles
and miles of trees
but all you want is the sea
the sea
You need the sea
and you don't need me.
Scheme | XABA XBCC DDEAAA XEAA AA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 1110111 1100110101 11011 11101 1101011 1101101101 1111110111 011101 11111 11001 11111 111 1111 111011101 0111 1111101 01 1101 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on October 22, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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