Analysis of I Lost My Life For Nothing
I left my country
I came to a strange land
The strange city
The strange ways
The stranger people
The strange language
Even the strange surroundings
I felt alone
I missed my beloved ones
However,
I wanted to gain my career
I desired to learn and know
The wonder of the world
For that
I faced and bore
And wore the painful time
I struggled and struggled
Even though
Time became, enemy of life
I stood firm, to win at every cost
I sold my heart, mind, and soul
In the hands of an opportunist,
And cunning and liar one
Who used me, years and years
I lost, my dreams, career,
And life for nothing, but pain,
Sorrow, sorry and tears
That one threw me out
After entirely breaking me
I was once again alone
Holding the passport,
With my broken heart, dream
Career and even life
I have not the control, on my tears
I cannot turn the time that I lost
I feel still a stranger
I miss you, oh my motherland.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 111011 0110 011 01010 0110 1001010 1101 111011 10 11011101 10101101 010101 11 1101 010101 110010 101 10110011 1111111001 1111101 00111010 0100101 111101 111101 0111011 101001 11111 100100101 1110101 1001 111011 010101 111001111 110101111 111010 1111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 858 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 37 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 703 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 174 |
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Submitted on December 26, 2019
Modified on March 05, 2023
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