Analysis of In a Lifetime
Once in a lifetime
Things were gone
Once in a lifetime
I have gone on
Once in a lifetime
The world stood still
Once in a lifetime
I could feel
Once in a lifetime
I never could know
Once in a lifetime
The falling snow
The fields shimmer
Of the reflecting light
I imagined the future
Now forgetting the past
I could see the days ending
My world slowly fades away
The sunsets on the mountains
Once in a lifetime
| Scheme | AbAcAdAeAfAfghgijklA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (40%) |
| Metre | 1001 101 1001 1111 1001 0111 1001 111 1001 11011 1001 0101 0110 100101 1010010 101001 1110110 1110101 011010 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 389 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 20 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 329 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on April 27, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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