Analysis of No Explanation
The girl had just turned 14,
And her life was about to change.
Everyone seemed to ignore her,
For her future seemed out of range.
She planned how she would end it,
And she planned it out just right.
She found her father's locked up gun,
And decided tonight was the night.
She found the key in his room,
And she opened the cabinet door.
She decided life was something,
That she didn't want anymore.
She found the bullets,
And loaded the gun.
She pulled the trigger,
And her life was done.
As she was pulling the trigger,
Her life passed her by,
And she thought to herself,
I don't want to die.
Scheme | XABA XCDC XEXE XDBD BFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01111 00110111 1011010 10101111 1111111 0111111 11010111 01001101 1101011 011001001 1101110 1110101 11010 01001 11010 00111 11110010 01101 011101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 573 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on August 16, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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