Analysis of Wishing For The Best



Wishing for the best of life,
Blessed to live it and get?
Takes an investment,
Of decisions to make.
Whether it is things to possess.
For the purpose to impress.
Or is it to feel as one ages...
One has no regrets.
Taking risks and chances.
On a path to adventure,
Without knowing what comes next.
Then to acknowledge,
Something done has been accomplished.
Done to accept and realize.
If it had not been for faith.
And the belief one keeps kept in self?
Like most who wish yet stay to sit,
Reminiscing time to have wasted it.
Only to look back,
Claiming...
If they had their druthers,
They would have done...
What they wanted to do.
Instead of listening to others complain,
About what it was...
They wished to have done.
Instead of paying attention to those,
Fearing challenges and obstacles.
Not to have faced them.
But heard about what they should fear,
Ignore and avoid!

'Some people have all the luck!'

'Could they be the same people,
Who got up off their butts?
With a doing to take risks and chances?
To realize nothing is guaranteed,
Without investing as if tirelessly...
In making efforts to endeavor,
Their wishes to want them come true?
Could they be the lucky ones,
You have been sitting and talking about?'

'Yep!
I heard how easy they had it.
Getting what they wanted.
From everyone who did it for them!'

'And...
Who were the ones,
That cleared and paved that path?
Have those born with that kind of luck,
Tell you that?'

'No.
But...
That's what I heard.'

'Oh.
And where are the ones,
Who told you that?
What do they do?'

'I have no clue.
We only sit and talk about,
Those who are lucky.
You know...
The ones who have it easy.
Doing nothing to get,
Their wants to wish them!'

'I know what you mean.
And people like that,
No one ever sees them around...
Doing the nothing they do, too!'

'That's what am saying.
That's how lucky they are!'


Scheme XAXXBBCXCDXXXXXXEEXFXGHXXGXXIXX J XXCXKDHLM XEXI XLXJN OXX OLNH HMKOKAI XNXH FX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (31%)
Etheree  (24%)
Metre 1010111 111101 11010 101011 10111101 1010101 111111110 11101 101010 1011010 0110111 11010 10111010 1101010 1111111 000111101 11111111 010111101 10111 10 111110 1111 111011 01110011001 01111 11111 0111001011 101000100 11111 11011111 01001 1101101 1110110 111111 1010111010 11010101 0101011100 010101010 11011111 1110101 1111001001 1 11110111 101110 11011111 0 1001 110111 11111111 111 1 1 1111 1 01101 1111 1111 1111 11010101 11110 11 0111110 101011 11111 11111 01011 11101101 10010111 11110 111011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,864
Words 425
Sentences 51
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 31, 1, 9, 4, 5, 3, 4, 7, 4, 2
Lines Amount 70
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 140
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted by lpahtillah on January 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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