Analysis of Of Happiness
Today I entered my future:
a doorway, always there,
receding with each new hope,
each new desire,
each new regret.
My past has entered with me.
Old photographs remind me of who I was,
who I am.
These tendrils and threads compose a sense of being,
spanning time.
It is the perfect stillness of a sunlit autumn day.
The colours have changed to embrace a gentle death,
yet before that death,
what beauty,
what peace!
I am fortunate,
for my autumn will be long and fruitful.
I will gather the threads of my past
and they will form a present ~
the gift of life.
| Scheme | AXXAX BXXXX XCCBX XXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) Etheree (25%) |
| Metre | 01110110 0111 0101111 11010 1101 1111011 1100111111 111 11010101110 101 1100110101101 01111010101 10111 110 11 11100 1110111010 111001111 0111010 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 537 |
| Words | 105 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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