Analysis of My Rival
Chris Wainwirght 1970 (Liverpool)
So, what defines a rival?
What makes a great adversary?
Do they have to be male or female?
Or maybe it’s something I cannot yet see?
Isn’t a rival someone who strives to beat another?
In my case, whoever aims for the same life goals as me?
Someone who frustrates, hinders or even harms in some way
The one who forbids me, to be.
What do I perceive to be my biggest threat right now?
Is it the hassles of daily life?
Is it something that really doesn’t need to be worried about?
Or is there something that really does cause me much strife?
So which one is my arch-nemesis?
A true foe, the sworn enemy?
Who is the one that stands before all others?
It’s simple, that one.... ...is me!
Scheme | XAXA XAXA XBXB XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101010 1101100 11111111 11011011011 101011111010 01101011011111 111101101011 01101111 1110111110111 110101101 111011011111001 1111011011111 111111100 01101100 11011101110 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 700 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
A look at ones self
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