Analysis of Take Charge (alternate version)
Chris Pearson 1977 (Winnipeg)
I could be your weakness
The kind you fight to get strong
You're right and I'm wrong
I'll be a challenge to meet
A villain to defeat
A bad habit to break
Just another mistake
A time in your life that went on
For much too long
Since there was nowhere for me to go
It was up to you to go away, so
You can blame today for tomorrow
But I want you to know
That the only thing in your way
Was you
And I was the one that let you go
| Scheme | XAA BB CC XA DDD D XX D |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 0111111 11011 1101011 010101 011011 101001 01011111 1111 11111111 1111111011 11101101 111111 10101011 11 011011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 409 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on January 20, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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