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
within.
I'll remember our talks and the life we had
as friends.
Spring has come again, I fixed that rusted
gate with a new one. It's like life in a way.
We're here and then we're 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 always, as being my friend.
Scheme | ABCDEAFGHIJKLMFNOP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 1101010111 101110111 100101 11110010111 11 11111011011 1111011101 01 101010100111 11 1110111110 11011111001 11011110 110011101 1010111101 01111010001 10101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 649 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 518 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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Submitted on July 30, 2010
Modified on April 04, 2023
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