Analysis of Paths We Wore
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
I live my life like an unmarked grave
You walk right by and never see
Another insignificance
Not trifled with popularity
You label me a troubled child
You feed me pills and therapy
You talk like I'm not in the room
Not seeing me see you not seeing me
The brush is growing up over
All those paths we wore
I don't know if I am capable
Of wearing anymore
An unmarked marker full of bones
The emptiness inside this hole
Won't reveal who it is in here
The stone, expressionless, my soul
You don't hear the echoes from within
Granite walls produce stone silence
The laughter of the carefree ones
Mocks right through me just like violence
The brush is growing up over
All those paths we wore
I don't know if I am capable
Of wearing anymore
Sometimes a song might have a bridge
We cross into a different place
Sometimes a bridge is nothing more
Than just a jumping off place
So now my marker has a name
Weeds grow up around the stone
I don't leave you some lofty moral
I leave you irony, filled with bones
Don't bother asking yourself why
Don't ask why you didn't see
Just talk like I'm not in the room
Not seeing me see you not seeing me
The brush is growing up over
All of those paths we wore
I have grown incapable
Of wearing anymore
© John Kennan 12-1-19
Scheme | xabaxacA DEFE ghxhxbxb DEFE xiei xxfgxacA DefE x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011 11110101 0100100 1110100 11010101 11110100 11111001 1101111101 01110110 11111 111111100 11001 10110111 01000111 10111101 0100011 111010101 10101110 0101011 111111100 01110110 11111 111111100 11001 01011101 110101001 01011101 1101011 11110101 1110101 111111010 111100111 11010011 1111101 11111001 1101111101 01110110 111111 1110100 11001 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,220 |
Words | 242 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 8, 4, 4, 8, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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