Analysis of Somewhere
When I'm lonely
I sit and dream,
I dream of riding
Faster and faster
Until I'm somewhere-
Somewhere else-
Another world far,
Far from my own.
Somewhere people live in peace,
There is no talk of war.
We are all brothers
Somewhere
How can I come home?
| Scheme | XXXXAXXX XX XAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 1101 11110 10010 0111 11 01011 1111 110101 111111 11110 1 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 251 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 2, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
I wrote this for a high school journal called "Cinnabar."
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Written on September 09, 1985
Submitted by jennifert.99162 on December 24, 2022
Modified on March 11, 2023
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