Analysis of 1999?

Ryan Blackborough 1984 (Adelaide)



I'm living when I can hardly stand the life I've led so far.
When giving is the hand that reaches out to leave the scar.
With none I'm left subjected to an open empty space.
As one I am connected to a mind beyond this place.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 110111101011111 11010111011101 11110101110101 11110101010111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 224
Words 49
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 172
Words per stanza (avg) 46

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Written a long time ago.

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Submitted by RyanBlackborough on March 28, 2024

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Ryan Blackborough

For years he lived in a secret government facility. One day they found him and were like "what the fuck are you doing here?", and they shot him. Now he wanders the earth as a ghost, a poet ghost (not a ghost writer, he's way cooler than that). For some reason he can wear hats but if he walks through a wall or something (not like tables or small stuff) the hat falls off. He's lost a lot of nice hats. more…

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