Analysis of 2:31 am



I never let myself love anybody besides you
not fully
not with everything I had to give
I think a part of me feels like I wasn't capable
or allowed to love someone new
in a way it feels like I’m betraying you
even though we aren't together anymore
my love is still there.
how can I lie and say I love someone new
when I am still holding onto hope
that you'll change your mind?
that you'll come back and say you made
a mistake letting me go?
I can't give myself permission to love
someone
when I'm still sitting on the kitchen
floor drinking too much to forget the sound of your name
wishing you would come back to me


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101111000011 110 11101111 11011111110100 1011111 00111110101 10111001001 11111 1111011111 111110101 11111 11110111 0011011 111101011 1 111101010 1101110101111 10111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 622
Words 128
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 485
Words per stanza (avg) 122
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Submitted by jaxonhurst on June 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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