Analysis of The possibility
Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)
That seeking could be a lost cause
Looming around me
That searching for the meaning of life
May be making me sick
The war isn't over, it continues in waves
The peaks and valleys get higher and lower
I stretch strong, grasping at leaves on a fallen tree
I am winding down an old dirt road in the hopes of finding a grassy knoll to kneel and shed tears for the Lord's sacrifice
I cannot keep doing this, I am worn too thin now in my fattened labor
Like a calf giving milk to it's mother
I am tired, weary, overgrown and unmended like a shard of cooked meat
There are labels you can smoke out of me, and yet I dry all the same, rubbed from the light
There is creation and murder of the ego
There is... nothing
It is all just labels
I groan in this misfortune
Like a holocaust.
Of my soul.
Scheme | X A X X X B A X B B X X X X X X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011011 10011 110101011 111011 011010101001 01010110010 111101110101 11101111100111001011101110110 1101101111111011010 1011011110 1110100101101111 111011111101111011101 110100101010 1110 111110 1101010 1010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 805 |
Words | 176 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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