Analysis of Wishes Live To Hope
The more I think I really know,
the less I understand
The further out to sea I drift,
the more I miss the land
The stormier the days repeat,
my soul to chase the sun
The rules I once thought hard and fast,
denounced and on the run
The more I think, the less I feel,
my spirit inexcused
The hours spent off from myself,
those times I stay confused
As days drift into sleepless nights,
the moon to haunt my dreams
Where wishes live to hope again
—if I can just believe
(Villanova University: June, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB XA XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111101 01101 01011111 011101 010101 111101 01111101 010101 01110111 1101 0101111 111101 11101101 011111 11011101 111101 01001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 505 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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