Analysis of Why
Why he rides I just do not know.
Always chasing that dam ole rodeo.
Every time he falls I feel his pain.
Lord let him quit before I go insane.
Trying to always be his best.
But he will end up like the rest.
Bruised, hurt and broken.
I offer my heart to him as a token.
He says, “wait just one more time.”
This time victory will be mine.
But I know he really is just lying.
He will get up and keep on trying.
Deep inside I know he won't stop.
Until they lay a tombstone on his plot.
Scheme | AABB CCDD XXEEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 11011110 1001111111 1111011101 1011111 11111101 11010 11011111010 1111111 11100111 1111101110 111101110 10111111 011101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 473 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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