Analysis of Definition of Lies



Lies are ugly
they wrap around your finger
and then they stick to you like
super glue sticks to wood
cant stop from strangling
you and when they finally
let go look up and beg
for forgiveness for telling the
 unrational lies for which has
been told, but nor is it
simple or easy to gain forgiveness
for the times you have
forbid any truth to come out
so it will follow you to your grave and it does come back
to torture you for all the lies you have told the vine is what comes to mind when you tell old greasy lies and so it wraps around you with a tight grip!


Scheme ABCDEAFGHIJKLMN
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 1101110 0111111 101111 111100 1011100 111101 10101100 11111 111111 1011011010 10111 01101111 11110111101111 110111011110111111111110101110111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 547
Words 114
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 445
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on January 17, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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