Analysis of Intentional Walking



I keep walking with my best intentions
Passed the school where I learned to spell.
Passed the place my father taught me
to ride a bike.
and caught me each time that I fell.
I keep walking and mind my intentions,
For utterances are the marrow of the soul,
Passed hexes best left unspoken,
Passed loveones I once held so close.
I keep walking
towards unblemished meaning,
towards an ancient, intuitive throng
where language receeds to intentions
and speech is converted to song.
I keep walking to the edge new galaxies
composed of dialects,
far too numerous to mention.
For you should know,
in this bleating confusion
I keep walking
with my best intentions.


Scheme abcdbaefgHhiaijkflfHa
Poetic Form
Metre 1110111010 10111111 10111011 1101 01111111 1110011010 110001010101 1111010 1111111 1110 0101010 0111001001 11011010 01101011 11101011100 01110 11100110 1111 011010 1110 111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 662
Words 131
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 528
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Written on August 16, 2022

Submitted by Boruni12 on August 28, 2023

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