Analysis of Change.
I notice that little change in tone when you speak.
It isn't much but the way the i love you's don't come up to your tongue anymore.
The way that you almost never show upto my door;
unless i call and ask you to.
and suddenly i feel like I'm eleven and don't know what I'm supposed to do.
and then I'll feel like this is where we start to fall apart.
this is where you'll slowly start to break my heart
and this is where I'll start wanting to run.
this is where I'll want to tell you that we're done.
not because i don't love you anymore or that subtle shift in your tone.
it's just that if I'm scared, I'll break your heart to protect my own.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110101111 1101101011111111101 01111101111 01110111 01001111010011110111 01111111111101 11111011111 0111111011 11111111111 10111110111101011 111111111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 487 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 130 |
About this poem
A poem about how a little shift in someone's tone of voice could change about just everything.
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