Analysis of Arrow.



I made my life an arrow,
The tip a deadly sharpened point,
So people never came so close,
That I may disappoint,
I'd sit and watch in silence,
As the world would pass me by,
Wondering how far I'd fall,
If I ever tried to fly,
You watched me with such interest,
Like it was me you'd tried to find,
As though you knew all of my secrets,
And the thoughts within my mind,
You looked like all the others,
But what I did not know;
Was while I'd made myself an arrow,
You had made yourself a bow,
And apart we'd both been useless,
But we'd finally worked out why;
Since you need someone to pull you back,
If you ever want to fly,
So you aimed me with precision,
And I flew straight from the start,
Until I landed with a solid thud,
On the target of your heart.


Scheme ABCBDEFEGHIHJAAKLEMENOPO
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110 01010101 11010111 11101 1101010 1011111 1001111 1110111 1111110 11111111 111111110 0010111 1111010 111111 11111110 1110101 00111110 11100111 11111111 1110111 11111010 0111101 0111010101 1010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 761
Words 154
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 573
Words per stanza (avg) 151
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Submitted on August 04, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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