Analysis of Never Came Out
Dustin Keast 2007 (Athens)
I never got to come out of the closet and see the light shine
I sat in the shadow with the feeling of greed and not pride
I lied in my room weeping and not crying
I waited for someone to tell me, I' m blossoming, I'm flying.
Scheme | ABCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101001011 11001101011011 11011100110 1101111111100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 225 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
About this poem
This poem is about me not being able to "Come Out" because everyone already knows.
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