Analysis of Don't Explain, Don't Complain
There's usually time and money for things that matter most.
Priorities set the scale for what we choose to host.
The places where we travel for our pied-a-terre,
shows personal desire as refuge from our care.
In the whirl of commitments our selections reflect
arenas of consequence to which we give affect.
All items that we fancy and purchases we own,
become merely extensions of who we are full-blown.
People we have included in our circle of friends
display a type of kinship with all that it portends.
Our votes on referenda, party and candidate,
depict our own agendas and values for the slate.
All that we do indicates, like a vivid telltale,
our deepest motivations with history to regale.
No need to make excuses, no reason to explain;
we're the sum of our choices, no reason to complain.
Scheme | AABCDDEEFFGGHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110001010111101 0100101111111 01011101101010 11000101101101 00110101001001 0101100111101 1101110010011 0110010111111 10110100101011 010111111101 1011010100100 01101010010101 11111010101 1010010110011 1111010110101 10111010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 781 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 635 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 139 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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