Analysis of Standing Alone
A body with a broken heart
A house that's not a home
People talking but not speaking
People looking but not seeing
We stand alone
Trust broken and torn apart
A day with no excitement
People dreaming but not going
People thinking but not knowing
We stand alone
Through my window, I can see
A black silhouette of a tree
Lined with snow instead of leaves
A dead grey sky in the scenery
Crying, calling out to me
We stand alone
A portrait in a dim-lit room
A girl with a sad face
And dark, dark eyes that follow you
And say
"We stand alone"
Scheme | abccDaeccDffgffDhijkD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 011101 10101110 10101110 1101 1100101 0111010 10101110 10101110 1101 1110111 0101101 1110111 011100100 1010111 1101 01000111 011011 01111101 01 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 516 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 425 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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