Analysis of Crossing Over & Looking Back
Crossing over,
I thought I’d be different
Crossing over,
I thought things would change
Crossing over,
I thought I’d be better
Crossing over,
I fought through the rain
Now looking back,
I see demurely
Now looking back,
I see through the fog
Now looking back,
I see more clearly
Now looking back,
—through life's epilogue
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | Ax Ax Aa Ax Bc Bx Bc Bx c |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 1111100 1010 11111 1010 111110 1010 11101 1101 11010 1101 11101 1101 11110 1101 1110 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 364 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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