Analysis of Do over
You know
The older I get
The more I forget
I watch the youth pass me by
And snicker at their lack of wisdom and sigh
If I could do it all again
Would I still be dumb as I was then?
It’s a shame
That now I know so much
And truly tragic
That I'm so outta touch
A cruel irony of fate
Life is a sick master I rate
It seems so different
Now that I'm old
I wish I could tell them the future
If I may be so bold
There so full throttle
Without a care in the world
As I once was
Into to the pit I was hurled
I cant make them understand
What lies ahead for them
But to be honest
Discovery is quite the gem
Through dangers unknown
The experience’s will be shown
Through the scars they receive
I can only hope
They have knowledge better than I
And navigate smartly
With a well tuned eye
To see path
They need to see
And never lose
How to be free
Eric (and sometimes not)
Scheme | XAABBCCXDXDEEXFXFXGXGXHXHIIXXBJBXJXJ X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 01011 01101 1101111 01011111001 11111101 111111111 101 111111 01010 111101 01010011 11011011 111100 1111 111111010 111111 11110 0101001 1111 01101111 111101 110111 11110 01001101 11001 001000111 101101 11101 11101011 01010 10111 111 1111 0101 1111 100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 863 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 36, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 335 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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