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.


Scheme ABCCDDEEFFDD
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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Submitted by rcatron1963 on December 16, 2023

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