Analysis of We Choose Most Everything
We don't choose birth
We don't choose dearth
but often here on earth we choose to berth,
we choose to girth we choose our worth and mirth
We don't choose pain
We don't choose stain
but often on this plain we choose to deign,
we choose to feign we choose our wane and gain
We don't choose woe
We don't choose foe
but often in the flow we choose to row,
we choose to go we choose our know and show
We don't choose sting
We don't choose ding
but often through life's swing we choose to zing,
we choose to sing we choose most everything
Scheme | AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111 1111 1101111111 11111110101 1111 1111 1101111111 11111110101 1111 1111 1100011111 11111110101 1111 1111 1101111111 111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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