Analysis of Like a highway
It's fragile as a vase.
Confusing like a maze.
Has many turns like a highway.
Has no limit.
Has no end.
What's beyond that highway?
Is it another maze, highway, or vase?
We'll never know for we're not dead.
Scheme | ABCDECAF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 010101 1101101 1110 111 10111 110101111 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 199 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on October 09, 2010
Modified on March 08, 2023
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