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
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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