Analysis of To Be Alone
I go to the city
To be alone…
Distraction
Calling me away
From myself
Isolating my
Memory
Burying my
Thoughts
In endless concrete
Passing 1000 people
Never meeting
One
Never meeting
One
Who will tell me
About myself
Never meeting
One
Who will tell me
What is real
Never meeting
One
Who will ask the question
Why
In my darkest
Most confused
Moments
I go to the city
—to be alone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | ABcxdeaexxxFCFCAdFCAxFCcexxxAB x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010 1101 010 10101 11 1001 100 1001 1 01001 1010 1010 1 1010 1 1111 011 1010 1 1111 111 1010 1 111010 1 0110 101 10 111010 1101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 389 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 30, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 31, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 21, 2019
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