Analysis of Ashes on the highway
Hey ma,
It sure has been a while since you left this boy,
As a motherless child, Left to figure out this world alone
Left to build myself a new home I've never known such pain
As that day when you became ashes on the highway
A: Now looking back, she was too young
It must have killed you to have watched her die
D: what kind of a man lays his hand on a child
So young I just can’t understand
A: I remember how we all cried that night
I cry when I think of that awful day when you became
Ashes on the highway
D: To lose your baby must leave you weak
But you battled on remained strong
For the rest of us, you just had be
I cry when I think of that awful day
When you became
Ashes on the highway
I asked the lord, if he could bring you back
I’ve never heard a reply
I've lived in misery
And I will for the rest of my life
I've never known as much pain
As that day when you became
Ashes on the highway
He’ll never bring her back, never bring her back, and no never bring her back
As much as I cry, never bring her back, never bring her back, and no never bring her back
She wasn’t meant to die
I've never known as much pain as that day when you became ashes on the highway
The earns broken now, It flew out of the crashed car. Luckily the sisters made it okay
The dogs just have minor scars.
Not the perfect ending as you had planned but somewhere in that vast desert land so wild
The winds will reunite you with your lost child
Scheme | xxxab xcdxxeB xxf beB gcfxaeB ggc b bxdd |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 11110111111 101001111011101 1111011110111 111110110101 011011111 1111111101 111101111101 1111101 01010111111 11111111011101 10101 1111101111 11101011 101111111 1111111101 1101 10101 1101111111 1101001 110100 011101111 1101111 1111101 10101 110101101010110101 1111110101101010110101 11111 1101111111110110101 011011111011100010111 0111101 10011011111101110111 0110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,442 |
Words | 306 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 3, 3, 7, 3, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Written on December 21, 2018
Submitted by tribeone_b on January 04, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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