Analysis of Separate Ways
I don't know when
Where it went wrong
And what I could have done
To keep it from happening
I don't know who - you are - anymore
and what you've become
but i can't help but feel responsible
for all that i've done
I don't know why
It has to be this way
And I don't know why
Why can't you change?
All we can do now
Is enjoy what we had
And leave the rest in the past
Cause' maybe this just wasn't meant to last
I don't think there was ever
Enough fuel for the fire
And it makes me wonder
Were we ever even in love?
We're on a greyhound bus
Leaving Side by Side
Like Strangers into the night
We don't know where, we're going to
But somehow it feels like
A tunnel is pulling through
We can make our excuses
Refuse and abuse it
But I think we know why
It has to be this way
I think we know why
We had to go
Our separate ways
Scheme | xxax xxxa bCbx xxdd eeex xxxfxf xxbCbxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1111 011111 1111100 11111101 01101 1111110100 11111 1111 111111 01111 1111 11111 101111 0101001 1101110111 1111110 01101010 011110 01101001 11011 10111 1100101 11111101 11111 0101101 11110010 010011 111111 111111 11111 1111 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on September 04, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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