Analysis of Discouraged
Joe Henderson 1976 (Jacksonville)
The world rejects me, everyone hates me, the world is coming to an end
I can’t defend something I can’t mend
My mind is too innocent, everything is irrelevant, this is who I am
Filled with hatred to the bitter end
| Scheme | A A X A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011101101110111 110110111 1111100101010011111 111010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 220 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Written on December 30, 2022
Submitted by joereal on December 30, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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