Analysis of Wasted Dreams
Delay success for as long
As you can…
Living up to an image
Will only cloud your judgment
Stealing what you can least
Afford to lose
Dragging you into the illusion
And myth
That could take a lifetime
To rail against
Dragging you into the
Vicarious trap
Of praise falsely given
—and wasted dreams
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
| Scheme | XXXXXXAXXXXXAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
| Metre | 0101111 111 1011110 1101110 101111 0111 101010010 01 11101 1101 101010 01001 111010 0101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 330 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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