Analysis of The Rusted Gate



I watch you slip away each day, as you
stare out beyond the rusted gate that swings
back and forth from winter winds that blow
snowflakes in a mindless dance.
Your face is lacking expressions of life I
once knew.
Now all I see is a shell waiting for time
to end this cruel fate you suffer from.
I'll remember our talks and the life we had
as friends.
Spring has come again, fixed that rusted
gate with a new one. It's like life in a way.
We're here and then we are gone. Everything
is replaceable at some point in time.
But the friendship we had will always remain
within my thoughts like the pages in a book.
I'll remember you as always being my friend.


Scheme ABCDEAFGHIJKLFMNO
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011111 1101010111 101110111 100101 11110010111 11 11111011011 1111011101 101010100111 11 111011110 11011111001 110111110 110011101 1010111101 01111010001 10101111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 638
Words 127
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 512
Words per stanza (avg) 127
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Submitted on January 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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