Analysis of Walls
I guess I'll never know the whole truth
You act so confident behind your paper thin walls
Barely strong enough to dam away your tears
Maybe you built them to protect yourself
Maybe you built one to protect me from you
Remembering only the pain from your past
Your mind turning heroes into villains
Dragons of your past must die by your own hand
Clouds of fear making my white armor look black
Asking for a trust that could never be earned
Use your internal Sun to end the storms forever
Although a calm sea never made a strong captain
We all deserve to enjoy the serenity of self-love
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLM |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101011 1111000111011 10101110111 1011110101 10111101111 01001001111 1110100110 10111111111 11110111011 10101111011 1101011101010 10111010110 110110100100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 585 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
About this poem
Dedicated to Andrea Young after she broke up with me for reasons I couldn't fully understand.
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Written on February 12, 2022
Submitted by em4ms on February 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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