Analysis of Patience



When your turn hasn’t come,
When you can’t help but run,
Have patience.

When your feeling down on your luck,
When you ain't got a buck,
Have patience.

When you can’t see the see the end in sight,
When your future doesn’t look bright,
Have patience.

I know it's hard to believe,
When bad is all you see.
Surrounded by the flood,
When will you ever be free?

But I heard good comes to those who wait.
Whatever you’re going through will go away.
I know one day, you’ll be fine.
Just have patience and don’t lose your mind.

Have patience cause good things take time.


Scheme xxA bbA ccA xdxd xxxx x
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 111111 110 11101111 111101 110 1111010101 1110111 110 1111101 111111 010101 1111011 111111111 1011011101 1111111 111001111 11011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 584
Words 128
Sentences 11
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 71
Words per stanza (avg) 18

About this poem

We're always running, looking for the next big thing. Always wanting to escape our current problems, feeling down when we don't get there fast enough. What we need is a little bit of good old fashioned patience.

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Written on May 20, 2022

Submitted by dianej.03877 on May 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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