Analysis of Today I Will Overcome
Alexander Reece DE Leon 1970 (Saginaw)
Judge me not for the mistakes I''ve made,
judge me not for the person I''ve become...
Like a rope twisted up into countless knots, I can no longer be undone...
I hang there motionless swinging back
And forth waiting for something to stop the pain...
The sky opens up to shine some light on what only becomes the same..
Over and over like a film stuck on the same haunting
picture on the movie screen...
Everything goes into the mind in circles so fast,
I no longer hear the screams...
The echo in my ears is silent now,
The speed of sound is mute in the air...
The blind man feels what he cannot see,
except today there is no one there...
The paintings on the wall shift into pictures
And start melting away the ink...
An outline showing the draft in the making where the architect begins to
think...
Now there is only a canvass where the
thoughts are caught on a blank page...
I write my fury on a piece of paper,
where only the mind can feel my rage...
Judge me not for the mistakes I''ve made,
judge me not for the person I''ve become...
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100111 1111010101 1011010110111110101 111100101 01101101101 01101111111100101 10010101110110 1010101 101010101011 1110101 0100111101 011111001 011111101 010111111 01010110110 01100101 11100100101010011 1 1111001010 1111011 11110101110 110011111 111100111 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,017 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 790 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 198 |
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