Analysis of Peaches and stars
Why do we treat God like roadkill.
Say what we wait for
Shout what we hate for
Life is a journey blinded by lights.
See beyond the fear.
When I saw my first dead fox I wondered whether it's soul was watching
I'm sure it was
Maybe it still is
Calling, remember me?
Keeping watch over you every 4am shift
It was gifted to this earth
Seeking
Finding
Then one day it couldn't take the brake
That was your job, still is unless its devine
| Scheme | XAAXX BXXXXXBBXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 1111111 11111 11111 110101011 10101 11111111101011110 1111 10111 100101 10110110011 1110111 10 10 111110101 11111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 436 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 10 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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