Analysis of To Overcome
Running for the boundary
But no escape is there.
You can't avoid yourself
If so please tell me where?
If peace is what you seek
You won't find it til death.
But I see life as precious
Worth every single breath.
The last solution left
Is confront the past I built.
To finally face the ghosts
And deal with my guilt.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1010100 110111 110101 111111 111111 111111 1111110 1100101 010101 1010111 1100101 01111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 303 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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