Analysis of Ups and Downs
Silvana Dureny 1976 (New Jersey)
I climb and then I fall
I grasp for LIFE and soon enough
I fall again..
Is it a challenge to see how many times I can handle this all
Is this what happens when we keep grasping at what we can't have at all
I climb to the challenge then you drop the ball
Leaving me helpless alone in sadness to carry me through this LIFE
But who would have thought I would be the one to take fall after fall
My strength became weakness
my tears became floods
My life became turmoil because I trusted you with my all
One day I Will Climb Tall
But This Time I Won't Fall
Any longer over you
| Scheme | ABCAAADAEFAAAG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 11110101 1101 11010111101111011 11110111101111111 11101011101 10110010101101111 1111111101111101 110110 11011 11011011101111 111111 111111 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 573 |
| Words | 117 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 451 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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