Analysis of Runaway
Darrell Pender 1967
(Hide and Seek)
Darrell Pender
© 3/18/2013
I was ten when I first ran away.
I had no clue what to do,
I needed to get away from you.
A bus, a plane, a train,
how fast would they whisk me away?
Hide me from the evil things that come.
Imaginary friends to ease my mind,
tell me stories in the evening time.
Quell the fears of a putrescent life.
The police and brothers the day spent
seeking the places they thought I went.
A bit smarter I was,
I spent the day hiding in a tree.
Climbed high looked as far as the eye could see.
Places to hide me;
places to keep me from you.
Tag, I'm it,
you found me.
| Scheme | X XX ABB XAX XXX CC XDDDB XD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 1010 1 111111101 1111111 110110111 010101 11111101 111010111 010011111 111000101 1011011 001010011 100101111 011011 110110001 1111110111 10111 1011111 111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 580 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 5, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on March 06, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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