Analysis of Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time I knew him well, a solitary soldier fighting a solitary war
I met him at dawn when the sky was clear, a man so broken that his hurt felt raw
He looked deep into my eyes, wounded, his hands bleeding from the shards of glass he held onto tight
Revealing how a bruised boy grew into a bruised man, a bruised man standing tall, but now too tired to fight
I knew him well and he knew me well, once upon a time, I loved him and he loved me, once upon a time
I was his and he was mine, once upon a time, now he's gone, a life faded into just being, "once upon a time."
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111110100101001001 11111101110111011111 11101111011101011111101 01010111010110111011111011 11110111110101111011110101 11101111010111101100111010101 |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 73 |
Words per line (avg) | 20 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Life and Death
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