Analysis of Life's Promise Still Unknown
I didn’t ask to be alone,
but I’ve always been alone
Living within the shadows,
that in time became my home
I never asked to be alone,
but I’ve always been alone
Each day a drifting footprint,
among endless stepping stones
I didn’t ask to be alone,
but I’ve always been alone
Each night a stark reminder
of a dream that’s never shown
I never asked to be alone,
but I’ve always been alone
The ending now upon me
—life’s promise still unknown
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2017)
Scheme | AA xx AA xx AA ba AA xa b |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 111101 100101 1010111 11011101 111101 110101 0110101 1111101 111101 1101010 1011101 11011101 111101 0101011 110101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 498 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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