Analysis of The Promise
I discovered this morning
after all these years,
that everyone is really different
from me
Whether rich or poor
black or then white,
it goes far beneath the surface
to see
When I look in their eyes
only questions stare back,
as I try to keep my thoughts
to myself
But along with those thoughts
comes the promise I bear,
and its hard to stay up
on the shelf
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
Scheme | XXXA XXXA XXBC BXXC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110 10111 110110100 11 10111 1111 11101010 11 111011 101011 1111111 11 101111 101011 011111 101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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