Analysis of Drift
For ten years we thought it would be forever
you were the only one who could touch me
and it didn't hurt
if I was a girl it might have stayed that way
if I was normal
or if only you weren't
you loved me so much
you said you couldn't live without me
you cried rivers for me
why was your love not enough to try to keep me
why was it not enough to change your mind
I tried so hard to make it easy
to make myself digestible to you
but no matter how many times you grasped my sleeves
how many times you sobbed
"I will never let you go"
I will always find myself standing in a corner
watching you dance with someone else
someone your parents would approve of
even if he never cared for you
I will always be standing by the wall
waiting for you to come back
and you would
and I would pretend nothing ever happened
and then you would do it again
and again
And every single time
you'd tell me how much you loved me
more than anyone in the world
that nothing would ever change that
and every single time
I believed you
Why was I not enough
why did you care what others thought
why, despite all of our love
you could never be seen dancing with me
Loving you was torture
So I had to slip away
when you weren't looking
you will never see me cry for you
but it was an ocean
Scheme | abxcxxxbbbxbdxxx axed xxxxff GbxxGd xxeb a cxdx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111010 1001011111 01101 11101111111 11110 1110110 11111 111101011 111011 111110111111 1111011111 111111110 111010011 111011011111 110111 1110111 11111100010 1011111 11101011 101110111 111110101 1011111 011 01101101010 01111101 001 0100101 11111111 1110001 11011011 0100101 1011 111101 11111101 10111101 1110111011 101110 1111101 111010 111011111 111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,288 |
Words | 287 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 4, 6, 6, 4, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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