Analysis of How can something so easy be so difficult



It was just go straight ahead
I could touch it
but still I got lost
The road back
would not be there to find
how can it be

That something so easy
could be so difficult
the days became years
and smiles
fade in timeless tears
and nights filled
of heat
froze to ice


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 1111 11111 011 111111 1111 110110 111100 01011 01 10101 011 11 111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 249
Words 54
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 8
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Anna Nickolausson

My story started when I was ten years old. I discovered I had a great imagination and also a gift to get it down on paper. Over the years I have learned to use it to feel better and also to make others feel better. Today writing are a large part of my life because it is both a hobby as well a passion and a vision to live for it in my future. more…

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