Analysis of Hill of My Life



why is it that whenever i reach the top
i still manage to fall?
i try my best to get where i want
yet get nowhere at all
everything goes great, nothing goes wrong
but once i reach the peak,
my happiness is gone.
so back up the hill i must crawl.
slowly reaching the top once again
only to get there and fall.


Scheme ABCBDEFBGB
Poetic Form Etheree  (40%)
Tetractys  (30%)
Metre 11110101101 111011 111111111 11111 10111011 111101 110011 11101111 101001101 1011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 299
Words 64
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 239
Words per stanza (avg) 64
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Submitted on December 21, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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