Analysis of A Game

Kimberly Tenold 2008 (Missouri)



When I want more than anything
For the silence to break
It's my voice that starts to shake
Uncertainty in words
That I'll never get to say
Roam my mind
They find a place to hide
Then fall into a blank state of time
Nothing's worth remembering
But all the shatters in my heart
Won't let me forget
When forgetting is all I want
But in my head
You're hanging around my place
Touching every little thing
That your memory now lives in
Now I wonder every day
To you, was I just a game
One where I was the one that got played
The player always walks away
With a smile on their face
Because they got their way


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111110 101011 1111111 010001 1110111 111 110111 110101111 1010100 11010011 11101 10101111 1011 1100111 10100101 11100110 11101001 1111101 111101111 0101101 101111 011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 603
Words 122
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 22
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 476
Words per stanza (avg) 120
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Written on June 19, 2023

Submitted by kimberlytenold on June 29, 2023

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Kimberly Tenold

I am a small town coutry girl still in highschool who dreams for big things like most do. Writing has been my passion for as long as I can recall, it's a pass time when I have a lot on my mind. more…

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