Analysis of Alone
by Curtis Carroll 12/20/04
Alone he sits in his empty room,
Watching bare walls waiting for a phone
Each day goes by, the same is true,
Nothing happens, nothing new.
Way up high where pigeons fly,
The wind is howling at the sky
No stars to see in this early morn,
Clouds are breaking the winter dawn.
The lights of the city are being cut,
Daybreak has come and so has the rut
Depression again, it comes and goes,
Reasons that he alone knows
His thoughts are clear about the past,
Each day that comes can be the last
A full life lived and ‘till the end,
He must remember where he had been.
Why he was here it wasn’t clear,
Unanswered questions year after year,
Life in general he wondered why
People were born just to die.
Where do they go after that?
Soon he would find out and so what?
Freedom at last to roam the sky
And finger the earth with his goodbye.
Note: An afternoon without golf
Scheme | X XXAA BBXX CCDD EEXX FFBB XCBB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 011101101 101110101 11110111 1010101 1111101 01110101 111101101 11100101 0110101101 11101101 010011101 1011011 11110101 11111101 01110101 110101111 1111111 10101101 101001101 1001111 1111101 11111011 10111101 01001111 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 868 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on January 23, 2021
Modified on May 01, 2023
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