Analysis of Don’t Miss It
Mary Jane Whelan 1942 (Ohio)
I saw a dream across the water rushing by me very fast,
I stopped to look at it again
And found it was my past.
I rewound it as I fell to sleep again More interesting than the first,
The more I began to watch
The more I had a thirst.
The moral to this dream is
to Slow down and look around,
One day you’ll wake up
And realize you found.
The dream traveling way to rapid
To much you missed along the way,
To late to go back over
No longer there no more to say.
Stop and smell the roses
while they are still around
People are here for just a moment.
And then soon they are gone
don’t bring them flowers
When there life is over
they are not there anymore!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101011101 11111101 011111 11111111011100101 0110111 011101 0101111 1110101 11111 01011 011001110 11110101 1111110 11011111 101010 111101 101111010 011111 11110 111110 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 652 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 506 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
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Submitted on February 25, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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