Analysis of Awaiting Tomorrow
When I was eighteen years
You promised me that,
You would come tomorrow
Now I am eighty years old
I still wait, for tomorrow
Perhaps it ever comes
I wish you would promise
For today
Since I have lost all, my today
Scheme | ABCDCEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
Metre | 111011 11011 11101 1111011 111101 011101 111110 101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 206 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on January 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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