Analysis of Lost In The Road
Robert Catron 1963 (Kansas)
Have you ever had the feeling like you were lost,
And the price for advice was your sanity it cost.
Seems your back is always up against the wall,
Like you're on the front line of a war with no help to call.
It makes you wonder - is life just to be this way,
Or have we just been caught up in the games that people play?
I feel like a pawn in the chess game of life,
I don't understand why all of my days are filled with strife.
Have I chosen the wrong path to follow right from the start,
Will all of these pressures cause me an attack of the heart?
So I Guess I'll just simply try to get thru one more day,
Who knows maybe - just maybe - the Lord will show me the way.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101101 0011011110011 1111110101 11101110111111 111101111111 11111110011101 11101001111 1101111111111 11100111101101 11111011101101 11111101111111 11101100111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 670 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 511 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 142 |
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A page from my life.
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