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
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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Written on March 04, 2024

Submitted by skitzy._.80 on March 07, 2024

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