Analysis of The Woman Who Truly Loved Him
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
Another goddamn morning,
Head throbbing, dread hanging heavy,
The weight of life on his crooked spine,
Thirsty for whiskey, the demon's levy.
Alcohol is his only friend,
The numbness that stops the pain,
Yet he knows it's killing him slow,
But he'll drink until his last day.
And then there's her,
The one he doesn't deserve,
But she stays, hiding her tears,
As she hangs on to his words.
She slathers on her makeup,
She's bought brand new lace,
But he's too lost in his own lies,
Too drunk to see her face.
He's a burden, a goddamn load,
A curse from which she can't flee,
But she wipes the tears from his eyes,
And tells him she'll never leave.
She ain't fooled, sees right through,
His tough guy act and fake smiles,
But she sticks with him despite it all,
His anchor in life's crazy miles.
So he soldiers on, each day anew,
Holding onto her love with all he's got,
Hoping he'll someday be free,
Of the booze and all his damn rot.
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XXXX XBCB XACX DEXE DFAF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (57%) |
Metre | 010110 11011010 011111101 101100110 1011101 0101101 11111011 11101111 0110 0111001 1111001 1111111 110101 11111 11110111 111101 1010011 0111111 11101111 0111101 111111 1111011 111110111 11001101 111011101 1010011111 101111 10101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 941 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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