Analysis of Almost Time



It’s been a while since you were announced
It’s nearly time for you to arrive
I’m about to see you enter into life
A life I helped to create
The time I’ve known about you
Seems to have passed too quickly
And now before I’ve realized it
You’re about to be born
For it’s almost time
It’s almost time to meet you
To teach you what little I know
And to learn far more from you
Than you’ll ever know
Where have these last months gone
I haven’t had time to learn
The many things I should
I haven’t had time to forget about myself
For the sake of someone else
My God, it’s almost time
To let go of these feelings
I haven’t yet understood
To be flooded with new ones
When I first see your face
It’s so strange and new
To love someone so much
That I haven’t even met
I can’t say how your touch is going to feel
Or how you will change my life
I only know it’s almost time
It’s almost time to try

NOTE*** This is from my CD A Father’s Love Letters
To listen to the CD please visit
http://www.reverbnation.com/#/mikehamill


Scheme XXAXBCXXDBEBEXXFXXDXFXXBXXXADX XXC
Poetic Form
Metre 110111001 110111101 10111110011 0111101 0111011 1111110 01011101 101111 1111 111111 11111011 0111111 11101 111111 111111 010111 1111101011 101111 11111 1111110 11101 1110111 111111 11101 11111 111101 11111111011 1111111 1101111 11111 1111111010110 1101011110 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,016
Words 202
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 30, 3
Lines Amount 33
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 391
Words per stanza (avg) 100
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 19, 2023

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