Analysis of Rights of Passage - part 1
As I travel through this passage of life, I oft wondered route taken
Wondered what and where I would be if another direction taken.
Would I be happier? Sadder? Would I be here? Or. . .
Did I take the road less traveled?
Heaven knows I haven't had much company on this journey.
Is the most traveled road the correct one?
Or just one of the most popular?
Would I have been happier traveling with many? Or sadder?
Then the spark! Not fire... no, just a spark that reminds
"Yours is the path unique, yours to travel,
with those seldom known by others."
Why?
As I travel, I experience a pain known to many,
but seldom cured complete
A pain so unbearable, so deep within that even a painful death
is more satisfying than another moment attempting to quell
a pain that nothing physical could ever match.
I stop: I shout to all the heavens and the earth,
to all that is seen, and to which is invisible to the eyes;
Scheme | AABCDAEEFGHIDJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110111110110 10101111101001010 1111001011111 11101110 101110111001110 1011010011 111101100 1111100100110110 1011101101101 1101011110 11101110 1 111010100011110 110101 011010011011100101 1110010101001011 011101001101 111111010001 1111101110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 702 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 171 |
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Submitted on October 25, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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