Analysis of Sometimes
Sometimes I will procrastinate.
Avoidance at all cost.
It helps me to alleviate
Self-Doubt when hope is lost.
Sometimes I am engulfed by fear
Of failure and that you
Will turn away when I am near
Rejecting all I do.
Sometimes I guard my "Stephen Time";
Old habits I preserve
To help reduce the uphill climb
Or what I might deserve.
Sometimes my lazy ways help me,
Though "laziness" misleads.
Because my insecurity
Affects what might succeed.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FXFX |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 0111010 010111 1111010 111111 01110111 110011 11011111 010111 01111101 110101 11010111 111101 01110111 110001 0110100 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 444 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
The futility of procrastination
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Written on June 08, 2022
Submitted by stevec.24118 on June 08, 2023
Modified by stevec.24118 on July 15, 2023
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