Analysis of Starting Over
I'm trying to find something to base my life upon,
Something in this strange world that goes on and on.
As the years go by and time fades away,
What used to be "good days" are now filled with dismay.
Tomorrow comes, and then again, it goes,
And my ambition to become something more, grows and grows.
Around the corner, yet miles away,
The life I want now, gets closer each day.
All I've ever wanted was something to live for,
I don't want to be this little person anymore.
I've been basing my life upon what others think,
I wish I could go back and redo everything, every time an eye would blink.
I've fought to become who I am and what I want to be,
I have to remind myself that one day, I will be free.
Free from the rules I followed as a child,
When everything was a game and life was so mild.
Now times have changed and I realize nothing is fair,
And sometimes it seems like nobody even cares.
It's like no one pays attention to what I feel is best for me,
And what I think about the way some things should be.
I understand now, that I'm pretty much on my own,
And I know a lot of what I can do will never be known.
All the time, I think about everything I can't say, what I have to keep in,
And by doing this, my thoughts only get more complicated and deepen.
Soon I hope to find out who I am, and what I am meant to become,
I want to know where I'm going, I don't need to be reminded of where I came from.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110111101 10011111101 1011101101 111111111101 011010111 01010101101101 010101101 0111111011 111010110111 111111101001 111011011101 1111110011010011111 11101111011111 1110111111111 1101110101 11010101111 111101101011 0011111101 1111101011111111 011101011111 101111101111 011011111111011 101110110111111110 01101111011100010 11111111101111101 111111101111101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,386 |
Words | 287 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,074 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 287 |
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Submitted on April 28, 2016
Modified on March 07, 2023
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