Analysis of Walkaway



Watching you walk away
Is a hard thing to do
It seems like only yesterday
That it was me and you

Starving on a wasting dream
The pain as days go by
Living on your memory
I Wish that you had tried

Stranded on a summers breeze
A prisoner of the sky
Gentle winds set my heart at ease
Daring me to fly

Visions on the moon black clouds
Embrace the stars of dawn
Trying hard to forget you now
Before I go sailing on

And it was from yesterday
That tomorrow, keeps the dream alive
For another day, any other way
Trying to survive, your Love

Dreams of the angels
Were brought down to the ground
Dreams in the wishing wells
Forgotten and never found

Dreams on the highway signs
Were lost unto the breeze
Dreams I can't remember now
Are my only memories


Scheme ABAB XCXX DCDC XXEX AXAX XFXF XDED
Poetic Form Quatrain  (57%)
Metre 101101 101111 1111010 111101 1010101 011111 1011100 111111 1010101 0100101 10111111 10111 1010111 010111 10110111 0111101 011110 10110101 1010110101 1010111 11010 011101 100101 0100101 11011 011001 1110101 1110100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 749
Words 152
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 21

About this poem

Written a long time ago after a conversation with a friend that - and then being accused of saying something that I never said...

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Written on March 19, 1990

Submitted by RayvnDarkwing on July 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Glenn Reynolds

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