Analysis of if by chance



If by chance

life is not impervious to fate
A reckless driver swerving
Around the bend drunk
On its own power, it's divinity
Happenstance, who could argue?
After all, it is nature that binds us
To it hip telling us that this is
The way of the world
Work within the confines of
Science and what we are
And not what we wish to be….

Soundtrack: “How high is the Moon- Wayne Marsh”


Scheme X XAABAXXXXXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 111 111010011 010101 01011 1111010100 101110 1011110111 111101111 01101 101011 100111 0111111 11110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 371
Words 73
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 11, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on August 20, 2014

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