Analysis of Adrift In the Wind
There is too much ancestry coursing my soul
to do me any real good
To live in a cave on a deserted island
my destiny best understood
Success once achieved is cast far aside
its burden to hamper my play
Genealogy stalks and preys as it looms
to darken those brightest of days
Each block lay unstacked as I run off again
my freedom left calling within
My soul unattached to the gifts I step over
—all fame left adrift in the wind
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX XX XX X |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111001011 1111011 110011001010 1100101 0110111101 11011011 0100101111 11011011 1111111101 11011001 11011011110 11101001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 467 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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