Analysis of Prime Time
Millstones and mishaps all mess with my mind.
I have no idea of what I might find
Tomorrow, next week, or even next year;
Yet freedom is one thing that I hold dear.
Anchors and anvils are weighing me down;
They're keeping me here, in this one-horse town!
The call of the wild now cries out in vain;
I fear I might never leave here again!
Hitches and hurdles are lurking close by,
But that does not mean that I should not try
To loosen my shackles and lighten my load.
I dream of adventure, down a new road.
"Hope springs eternal" a poet once said.
Faith and good fortune are surely not dead!
I'll find the right moment, biding my time,
Then off I will fly, straight into my prime!
Copyright © Robert Haigh 2020
| Scheme | AABB CCXX DDEE FFGG X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111111 11101011111 011111011 1101111111 100111011 1101101111 0110111101 1111101101 1001011011 1111111111 11011001011 1110101011 1101001011 1011011011 1101101011 1111110111 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 729 |
| Words | 138 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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