Analysis of Walk Forward



You are free~

How sweet the sound

Open the door~

With the sun at your back~

And wings at your side

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Scheme A X X X X AX
Poetic Form
Metre 111 1101 1001 101111 01111 1 1
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 317
Words 41
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 13
Words per stanza (avg) 4

About this poem

Freedom within

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Written on July 22, 1994

Submitted by Caliconine on November 02, 2023

Modified by Caliconine on November 04, 2023

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