Analysis of You Can



Who Can guess the future?
Who can tell the past?
Who knows the taste of sea?
Who can predict when the clouds will burst?

You may know the answer
Or keep it buried in your head.
You may choose the correct path
But can you discover what’s ahead?

The dust on the chest of time may tell you the past
But you never know when the shadow will cast.
The darkening of sky warns you for rain
But you can never drink the sea water with trust.

It’s you who can let the birds fly with freedom
It’s you who can make the ocean ripple.
It’s you who can let the birds fly with freedom
You, can change the lives of the blind and the cripple.


Scheme abxx acxc bbxx DeDe
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 111010 11101 110111 110110111 111010 11110011 1110011 111010001 011011111101 1110110111 0100111111 111101011011 11111011110 1111101010 11111011110 111011010010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 634
Words 138
Sentences 10
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 121
Words per stanza (avg) 32

About this poem

Don't hesitate to pen your ideas for the betterment of the common, don't delay in it. A pen and a paper can mold a life, and even change the future.

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Written on July 23, 2020

Submitted by adi.play2606 on March 14, 2022

Modified by adi.play2606 on March 14, 2022

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Aditya Narayan Chakraborty

A teen enthusiast in nature and life poetry (and patriotic), who loves to read books as a life-long hobby and exploring the depths of my perception of the language through my writing skills. more…

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