Analysis of So



So shall you be as you've destined yourself-
Laid barren by pain and mistrust,
So shall you wake as you've set the dawn's bell
To a world that is cruel and unjust;

So comes the trial where your heart is denied
The one ending to all you've in play,
All of the windmills you gave breath to turn
Now come calling, and sweep you away.


Scheme XAXA XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1111111001 11011001 1111111011 1011110001 11010111101 011011101 110111111 111001101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 331
Words 69
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 128
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Written on November 09, 1997

Submitted by on May 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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