Analysis of Stairway To Heaven Or Highway To Hell
Albert Browning 1943 (Puritan Mines, WV)
It's a stairway to Heaven or a highway to Hell
Your love is drive me insane
Each day we're together it gets harder to tell
If I'm on the stairway to Heaven or highway to Hell.
I was doing just fine climbing one step at a time
From the misery when our love life failed
Why'd you come back here driving me out of my mind
You've got me back on the bottle and the highway to Hell
You said I should know you shouldn't have to tell
Why you're screaming, mad and upset
But I can't read you mind so I'm back on the wine
I'm off the stirway to Heaven and on the four-lane to Hell.
| Scheme | AXAA XXXA AXXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 10111010111 1111101 111010111011 111011101111 1110111011101 10100110111 111111011111 1111101000111 11111110111 11101001 111111111101 11011100101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 588 |
| Words | 121 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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