Analysis of Riddle
stranger in paradise,
hello world, I like you, do you like me?
I dont know where I came from,
still not sure what Im going to be
I suckle on your mysteries,
grow from the energy
never knowing what it means.
I am here now, somehow I have sentience
but I dont remember where the years went,
my beginning impression has disintegrated
but I know Ive never stopped adoring you.
Im told you are old, older than I can fathom
but you dont look it,
it seems we've aged you more than time has,
Im a latecomer to existence, but still,
the meaning has not been found yet,
I exist, and know not how,
and I am thankful for my consciousness,
for these thoughts I communicate,
for aesthetics and the senses,
for your stimuli to my synapses;
I am grateful to take part
in this puzzle of questions.
Scheme | ABCBDBEAFGHCIJKLMNOPPQR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010 0111111111 1111111 111111011 11011100 110100 1010111 11111111 1110101011 101001010100 11111010101 111111011110 11111 111111111 10100101011 01011111 1010111 0111011100 1111010 10100010 111011100 1110111 0110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 758 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 609 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 148 |
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Submitted on April 11, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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