Analysis of Drifters In Humanity



Lost identities of highway rescue deft
right hand glove on the left
how much can you remember?
Holding on to today, sleeping cold December
life's lighting, speeding will to train
steam engines build up combustion of some strain
order our directions to a heading
crossroads intersection destiny and spreading
uplifted of a mood in temporary bask
scenic room changes, switching their own mask
kept barely together, glued to a task
degrees into a needle tip, encompassing a life
busybody friction positive attitude rife
people peripheral vision side by side
composed images of they, quietly they tried
cultured, shock, class and resistant
changes always changing, always inconsistent
into their nightly beds, out into pieces
this complicated never-ending story, increases
short to long term, committed dream releases


Scheme AABBCCDDEEEFFGGHHIIJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1010011101 111101 1111010 101101101010 11010111 11011010111 10100101010 1010100010 10010101001 1011010111 1100101101 01010101010001 110100101 10010010111 011001110011 10110010 101101010 01110110110 1100101010010 11110101010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 813
Words 126
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 674
Words per stanza (avg) 125

About this poem

This poem is about the homeless crisis in America and around the world and how a person's life can be transformed at times from that state of being homeless back into something more. I categorized the poem under lyrical because I am a song writer and often use my poems as lyrics.

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Written on December 05, 2020

Submitted by Soul-to-song on May 10, 2022

Modified on March 23, 2023

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