Analysis of today is the day
Believing is the way of life
Believe that sorrow will die
To wake up and see the sun shine
Without the scars of yesterdays decay
The birds singing as such is joy to live
Without the vivid echoed screams
That life will start today
| Scheme | ABCDEFD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010111 0111011 11101011 010111001 0110111111 01010101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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