Analysis of The Road Down
Tomorrow left abandoned
with every choice I make
Constricting all potential joy
and limiting my fate
Each short term indecision
restricting unrestrained
My future playing out of tune
a timed and dull refrain
Most often I have missed it
when no outweighs a yes
For temporal gain my judgment strained
—an orphan in regress
(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011010 1100111 01010101 010011 1110010 01001 11010111 010101 1101111 11101 110011101 110010 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 354 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 19, 2023
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on March 19, 2023
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