Analysis of Maybe in Another Life I'll be Different
Dear younger me, I wish I could apologize.
I know how you saw the world through your eyes.
I feel you would be so disappointed in me,
I tried to become what you wanted us to be.
I tried to be different from them.
I guess you just can’t sow a different hem.
I truly hope you that you do see
That I wanted this apple to fall far from our tree.
My actions and my words, both set in stone.
I guess I was so scared I’d be alone.
I found outlets, but never the right one.
I guess everything has been said and done.
I can’t go back in time, I can’t fix my mistakes.
I just hope that in another life, we don't end up with these traits.
You were too kind for this world.
Even though they all saw you as a girl.
You wanted to be different, and I really did try.
I wanted that too, even if i had to die.
We’ve begged to be happy with tears in our eyes.
I promise I put in the effort, even through all the lies.
I swear in the next life I’ll do better,
No matter how much it may be messier.
You deserve your happy ending, younger me.
I wish I could’ve been what we wanted to be.
— Maybe in another life I’ll be different.
Scheme | AABB CCBB DDEE XXXX FFAA GGBBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111010 1111101111 11111101001 111011110111 111110011 11111101001 110111111 11101101111101 1100111101 1111111101 111110011 111011101 111101111101 1111001011111111 1011111 1011111101 11011100011011 110111011111 111110110101 110110010101101 1100111110 11011111100 10111010101 11111111011 100010111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,133 |
Words | 259 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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