Analysis of WITH YOU



      WITH YOU,
 I had a fighting chance.
       WITHOUT YOU,
 I have to pay in advance.

WITH YOU,
I found a reason to believe.
      WITHOUT YOU,
I'm absent without leave.

WITH YOU,
I lived in the sun.
     WITHOUT YOU,
Nothing is fun.

WITH YOU,
I could see a light.
    WITHOUT YOU,
 I have stage fright.

WITH YOU,
 I felt the riches.
    WITHOUT YOU,
 I wear big girl britches.

WITH YOU,
 The water was warm.
      WITHOUT YOU,
 I'm preparing for the storm.

WITH YOU,
 I believe in tomorrow.
     WITHOUT YOU,
 I know pain and sorrow.

WITH YOU,
 Everything was easy.
     WITHOUT YOU,
Nothing can please me.

WITH YOU,
 I believed in fate.
   WITHOUT YOU,
 I can only hate.

WITH YOU,
I believed in God.
   WITHOUT YOU,
I face the firing squad.

WITH YOU,
 I felt alive.
   WITHOUT YOU,
 It's crash and dive.

WITH YOU,
 I could see.
   WITHOUT YOU,
There is no me.


Scheme AbAb AcAc AdAd AeAe AfAf AgAg AhAh AiAi AjAj AkAk AlAl AiAi
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11 110101 011 1111001 11 11010101 011 110011 11 11001 011 1011 11 11101 011 1111 11 11010 011 111110 11 01011 011 1010101 11 101001 011 111010 11 10110 011 10111 11 10101 011 11101 11 10101 011 110101 11 1101 011 1101 11 111 011 1111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 951
Words 213
Sentences 25
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 48
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 49
Words per stanza (avg) 13

About this poem

This is about being with or without someone. The contrast between the two.

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Written on March 30, 2022

Submitted by Turbo1904 on April 05, 2022

Modified on April 27, 2023

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