Analysis of Drowning In Doubt
Melinda Smith 1986 (Roanoke)
What do you do when you're so used to being disappointed that you no longer make plans?
After so many heartbreaks you become afraid to love or even hold hands.
I never imagined that faith or love could be destroyed so easily and so fast!
Marriages that were until death separated them now no longer last.
A person cannot look up, nor down, but instead, just looks straight ahead.
Most people that go missing these days, are either lost forever, or found dead.
There are no more happy endings, only troubled, or sad.
All of the good that at one time existed, have been replaced with bad.
Maybe the younger generations will save the outcome of our story.
Instead of falling down into anguish, we will all rise up in glory.
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Characters | 711 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 57 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 570 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 131 |
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