Analysis of A Song of Myself
As betrayed by fate and duty,
To the vaults I confess:
If I've been a girl so pretty,
Why I couldn't choose but guess?
Born among the baby booming,
Then a youngster on the run,
I embraced my share of losing
As my wealth was next to none.
And the winds of deathly morrow,
Raging like an awful sea
Did not heal my pain and sorrow,
But they stole my memory.
If the nights with such imbalance,
Made me speechless, not to say,
I still wonder why thy silence,
Couldn't choose a fearless way?
You, the people of unkindness,
Let my brain for once alone!
Let my mind to keep it's brightness,
Let my life to be my own!
To engage the mighty scale,
To define the right from wrong!
Shall I place across this tale,
It might be undying song!
Then, I live the wild places,
Just to reach another shore,
I feel brave to see new faces,
That no one has seen before.
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD EAEA FGFG BHXH IJIJ KLKL XX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 10111010 101101 11101110 1110111 10101010 1010101 10111110 1111111 00111010 1011101 11111010 1111100 10111010 1110111 11101110 1010101 101011 1111101 11111110 1111111 1010101 1010111 1110111 1110101 1110110 1110101 11111110 1111101 101111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 867 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on March 14, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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