Analysis of Watching her walk away
Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)
Watching her walk slowly away
I wish I could tell her
Tell her I loved her once
Tell he how much she meant
She left so long ago and there's no way back
There is no coming back from this
I'm sorry I lost you
I was playing in a raffle
I didn't see you exit the back door while I was thrown in games with sunglasses on, dice drawn in the summer
Drinking the bourbon and scotch whiskey shots, loud with my hammer laugh, crushing those spirits around me
Until you left...
| Scheme | X A X X X X X X A X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10011001 111110 101101 111111 11110101111 11110111 110111 11100010 11011100111111011101110010 100100110111110110110011 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 478 |
| Words | 105 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 11 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Written on June 10, 2023
Submitted by kbdallas2020 on May 29, 2023
Modified by kbdallas2020 on June 10, 2023
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