Analysis of Wake Up



How did I get here? Where is my self worth?
Yet here I am, and there is no escape
It’s time to face a monster reality
Those moments have passed,
There is no going back.

There once was a love that rivaled
The sonnets of Shakespeare, the lyrics of Keats
Better to have loved and lost?
Better to have never loved at all?
What use is there to dwell?

I try to breathe but find that I’m drowning
My lungs are filling… vision dimming
Moments flash….memories long past
This can’t be how it ends…


Scheme XXXAX XXXXX BBAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 1111011101 111101010 11011 111101 11101110 0101101011 1011101 101110111 111111 1111111110 111101010 10110011 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 517
Words 109
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 4
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Written on September 02, 2023

Submitted by heatherg.95197 on March 17, 2024

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