Analysis of I Keep
This breeze that I can no longer share with you.
What do I do with myself?
My mind keeps straying from the path.
From the purpose of this journey.
I’m trying to find the missing piece to me.
But I keep seeing you.
This dirt road that marked our childhood.
The trees that stood so tall
through our child eyes.
It still seems too far to reach.
Every time I stop to look at the changes.
I keep hearing you call my name like the old days.
With my hands in my pocket.
I keep walking trying to leave behind us.
Still, my head turns back to stare.
Us innocently playing.
Oblivious of the world we lived in.
I keep remembering the pain that drove you away.
My thoughts scattered all about.
Like that of the delicate autumn leaves.
Crunching underneath my shoes,
I shatter every memory trying to forget.
The sea of grass we ran across.
I keep seeing the dandelion seeds fly.
Flocks of birds above our heads
searching for their homes.
Just like us trying to find ourselves.
Not knowing what we were looking for then.
And even now I don’t know what to search for.
I keep failing to find myself.
Scheme | ABXC CA XXXX XX XXXX XX XXXX XX XXXX XB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 11111110111 111111 11110101 10101110 11011010111 111101 11111101 011111 11011 1111111 100111111010 111011111011 1110110 11101011011 1111111 1100010 0100101110 1101000111101 1110101 1110100101 100111 11010010010101 01111101 1110010011 11101101 10111 1111011001 1101101011 01011111111 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,096 |
Words | 241 |
Sentences | 27 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on July 23, 2021
Submitted by HanAlister on December 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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