Analysis of My race
To well meaning voices and mockers alike
Who scream to my heart "give chase"
For this truth I implore, do brace.
Your alarm clocks of me misplace
For the flower which calls my body its vase
Will not be hurried to bloom.
My truth as prickly as a rose
From shame I have retraced to embrace
Reputation and Opinions, I command you Displace!
And give way and room for grace!
For you see, this is my space
With a destiny assured within this trace.
So relax, I pray...
This is my race, to run at my pace.
- laulindah
#thehundredth.
| Scheme | XAA AAX XAAA AAXA XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110100101 1111111 11110111 10111101 10101111011 1111011 11110101 111101101 0100010101101 0110111 1111111 10100010111 10111 111111111 1 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 519 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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