Analysis of Discouraged
I can never be a writer,
As words are not my skill;
I scribble and I scrawl,
But constantly hit a brick wall.
With no cheering on my team,
I may as well pack in my dream.
No one to cheer or give advice,
I may as well be counting rice.
With no encouragement,
And nothing to inspire;
I may as well crumple my pages,
And toss them in the fire.
For years and years I’ve really tried,
But to no avail;
It seems everything I write,
Is bound to fail.
Scheme | AXBB CCDD XXXA XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11101010 111111 110011 11001011 1110111 11111011 11111101 11111101 110100 010101 111110110 0110010 11011101 11101 111011 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 449 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
The reasons I stopped writing for many years.
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Written on November 01, 2010
Submitted by belindadobie on January 11, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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