Analysis of The Word Man...



I come to you tonight with some words that I rhyme,
Sometimes these thoughts just come to me without much time.
At times these thoughts they seem to weigh heavy on my heart,
Like a mountain of large rocks just trying to tear me apart.
Other times the words come to me gently like a blue ocean wave,
They float thru my mind and I feel so free like I'm nobody's slave.
I let the words flow thru my heart and then up into my head,
As this happens the thoughts slowly become words I write with lead.
Sometimes they are happy thoughts that I can't wait to share,
Other times they never make it out of my heart cause I fear - who will care?
People tell me that I have a gift God gave me to express my heart,
But I wonder does God know sometimes that inside it tears me apart?
I want to share so much but my heart is getting so hard to hear,
These walls have been building around it for what reason it's not clear.
I look inside myself and at times all I seem to see is all dark and cold,
Maybe I'm beginning to lose my touch or maybe my heart and mind are old
But have no fear I will write out my feelings just as long as I can,
After all they tell me God gave me the gift of being - The Word Man.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEBBFGHHII
Poetic Form
Metre 111101111111 011111110111 1111111110111 101011111011101 1010111110101101 11111011111111 110111110110111 111001100111111 0111101111111 101110111111111111 10111110111110111 11101110110111101 1111111111101111 1111100111110111 110110111111111101 1010101111110110111 11111111110111111 10111111101110011
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,191
Words 262
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 51
Words per line (avg) 14
Letters per stanza (avg) 922
Words per stanza (avg) 246

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A page from my life.

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Submitted by rcatron1963 on December 16, 2023

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