Analysis of STRANGE HIGHWAYS

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



He rides strange highways
                           into the night,
Dark highways no-one else
                                 can ever see.
Highways where second chances
                             may be granted,
Where those who died young
                                   may live again,
And those who did evil
                                  will finally pay.
Old scores must be settled
                                  by enemies,
On this highway of life
                          the highway of death.

He walks along strange highways
                                     late at night,
Dark lands that no-one else
                                     can ever travel.
Highways where lost opportunities
                       may finally be realised.
Where those who were never born
                                 can finally be real.
Long broken friends may
                                at last be renewed.
On this high of new hope
                             on the highway of life.

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme ABCXXXXXDEXFGX ABCDFBXXEXXG XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 0101 11111 1101 111010 1110 11111 1101 011110 11001 111110 1100 11111 0111 110111 111 111111 11010 1110100 110011 1110101 110011 11011 11101 111111 10111 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,047
Words 116
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 14, 12, 3
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 177
Words per stanza (avg) 39

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He rides strange highways into the night, Dark highways no-one else can ever see.

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Written on 2009

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Phil Roberts

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