Analysis of Look Ahead....
Mary E. McDonald 1968 (NY)
I sit here, tormented in my mind
all my thoughts
I can't describe.
I'm torn between two lives.
Torn between two roads,
they lay before me--
never taken.
1, 2, 3, 4, I have to make a choice.
If only I had another chance.
I should have stopped it all before. . . .
Is it too late now?
Can I go back,
or only look?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLM |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110011 111 1101 110111 10111 11011 1010 111101 110110101 11111101 11111 1111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 300 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 224 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on February 06, 2021
Modified on March 14, 2023
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