Analysis of Vikki's Lament
I'm lying here with my eyes closed
Thinking of everything that I pre-supposed
I don't know why I'm letting it upset me,
The fact that we are never going to be.
You're in my head
Every day
My heart says "yes"
But my head says "nay"
Each and every day I say "I love you"
And every time you repeat those words too
But it's clearly visible they mean to me
Something completely different than you can see.
Never stop thinking
Of what could be
If there was something linking
Your heart to me.
Tell me now if I made a mistake
By revealing my feelings far too late
If I had been honest, right down to the letter,
Is there any chance things could have ended better?
Scheme | AABB XCXC DDBB EBEB XXFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011111 1011011101 11111101011 01111101011 1011 1001 1111 11111 10100111111 01001101111 11101001111 100101001111 10110 1111 1111010 1111 111111001 1010110111 111110111010 111011111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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