Analysis of Amalgamated (That Means “United”)
We must turn to each other, instead of on each other
in the midst of our turmoil,
and take a moment to be thankful
for all we have to be grateful for.
Sure, the sky bends as though it could turn on us
at any instant, churn and make us wish we didn't
ignore the forecast the evening before,
but the evening news has become somewhat of a bore;
predictably unbearable, expectedly disagreeable;
at the same time wasting time attempting to calculate
the admittedly indeterminable.
Maybe the ground will start shaking,
and maybe our bones will start breaking.
Maybe we can turn this around,
or maybe we've run this town into the ground.
But for now we still have each other,
one another, to put us back together.
It seems sometimes we forget that,
though it's nothing to be ashamed of,
in a world where anything's possible,
and anxiety is what we're made of.
Measured by the breathes we take,
instead of the moves we make;
when the world is crumbling around you,
as it so often seems to do,
instead of recoiling in fright,
why don't you grab a hand or two,
and together,
we can make it through.
Scheme | ABCDEFDDCGBHHIIAAJKCKLLMMNMAM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111100111110 0011101 010101110 111111101 10111111111 1101010111110 010101001 1010110111101 0100010010100 1011101010110 001001 10011110 0101011110 10111101 11011110101 111111110 10101111010 11011011 111011011 001110100 0010011111 1010111 0110111 1011100011 11110111 011101 11110111 0010 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,060 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 29 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 854 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 200 |
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Submitted on September 25, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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