Analysis of No Bliss
Jeannie Withrow 1960 (AZ)
All want to be special in some-ones thought,
try all you want, it will be for naught.
The standards are different for you and they,
behind your back you know not, what they say.
The most we can hope for, to not be aware,
to blindly continue as long as we dare.
Never to know how they truly feel,
a blessing for the heart that never could heal.
Hold your head up, continue this life,
try to removed the d*mn bloody knife.
I have heard it said that ignorance is bliss,
for myself, today, this is all that I wish.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111100111 111111111 01011001101 0111111111 01111111101 11001011111 101111101 01010111011 111101011 1101011101 11111110011 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 391 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on January 15, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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