Analysis of Changed Into Song
Will the pieces of the life you’ve lived
come together at the end?
Will the times that you reflected
straighten your path out, free of bends?
Are the places that you visited
more than way stops that you chose?
Are the feelings that you left with
still inside you—heaven knows?
Are your children still in contact,
do they ask you what you think?
Are your parents long forgotten
as you pour yourself a drink?
Are the days recounted backwards
with the best all left behind?
Does the silence serve to haunt you
with those things you cannot find?
Does the laughter fall on deafness,
do the smiles pass you by?
Are your friends left off your guest list
with no time for them to find?
Are the pieces of your puzzle
pointed sharp, and ill to fit?
Does your conscience wear a muzzle
with the blame an endless pit?
Is it what you said you wanted
when you started down this path?
Or are you now among the hunted
in a bad choice aftermath?
If before you’re gone, one chance flew by
a difference then to make
Would you hang on tight to all the lies,
or embrace this change of fate?
And if you do, the words will say,
you almost got it wrong…
Before you called those choices back
—and changed them into song
(Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)
Scheme | XX AX AB XB XC XC XD XD XE XD FG FG AH AH EX XX XI XI X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010111 1010101 10111010 10111111 101011100 1111111 10101111 1011101 1110101 1111111 11101010 1110101 10101010 1011101 10101111 1111101 10101110 101111 11111111 1111111 10101110 1010111 11101010 1011101 11111110 1110111 111101010 001110 101111111 0100111 111111101 1011111 01110111 11111 01111101 011011 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,242 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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