Analysis of On Becoming You
Now is the time to begin.
Begin your search from deep within.
Life will make more sense
If you stop all pretenses.
There is so much for you to choose,
What do you have to lose?
There are many possible ways to be,
Just open your eyes and see.
Take a chance, make a turn,
It’s the only way you’ll learn.
Never give up on all ways of being,
Open up to a better way of living.
You are surrounded by life’s attractions,
Be rid of your expectations.
Never be afraid to discover the difference,
As long as it makes sense.
You can’t have everything.
You can’t do everything.
You can’t be everything.
Try to be all will only make you disappear.
Scheme | AABX CCDD EEFF GGXB FFFX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 1101101 01111101 11111 1111010 11111111 111111 1110100111 1101101 101101 1010111 1011111110 10110101110 1101011010 1111010 1010110100100 111111 11110 11110 11110 11111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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