Analysis of Desiderata
They all crave, wish, desire and want
Badly--freedom in all its varied and
Wondrous glory:
The panhandlers, muggers, drug addicts
And drug pushers in a dead-end alley in
Downtown (where for some reason,
The grass is always green);
The old-black lady with all her earthly
Wares "thrown in" an old shopping cart,
Talking on a cell phone (she found it on
An MTA bus-stop bench near Rampart) to her
Movie-star daughter in Malibu, imploring,
"Allow me to live in your garage;"
The "thirty something" guy from Arizona,
Who talked me into giving up some loose change;
The old-white man in Westlake with a pocket
Comb and mirror "admiring himself" while
"Speaking in tongue," and--across the vast
Pacific Ocean, in a former colony, a former
Actor/leader, saying, "I am still...I am."
Scheme | ABCDEFGCHIJKLMNOPQJR |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111101001 1010011100 1010 01010101 01100011100 1111110 01111 0111011010 11011101 1010111111 111111110 101100100010 011110101 0101011010 11101101111 0111011010 1010010011 100100101 010100010100010 1010101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 756 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 598 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 130 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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