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
Scheme | ABBCDEFGAHIJKLAMDNODLD |
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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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