Analysis of Young Dreams



Sprinkled with genius
I labored two summers
put myself through college.
It’s all about money.
An essay published
trying poetry.
Three years later
sticking with it, poetry.
16 years later
I write my first grade poem.
Bingo!
A job of a lifetime
what I always wanted.


Scheme ABCDEDFDFGHIJ
Poetic Form
Metre 10110 110110 11110 110110 10110 10100 1110 1011100 110 1111110 10 01101 11110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 267
Words 53
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 210
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Written on June 24, 2022

Submitted on June 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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