Analysis of What A Drive
What a drive it’s been
A mile down the road
How different life looks
From here to there
Half a mile away
I saw people breaking their backs
Trying to find their lives
Where they lay ruined
Yet here there’s laughter
With nothing amiss
As though through innocence
People are blind
To a mile down the road
A different race is being run
Here people empty their pockets
On drink, food and tea
There they empty their houses
Of all they possess
Here we’re involved in the chase
Not for what has been lost
But what might be won
Not to say life doesn’t go on
Just doesn’t seem right
Here it moves fast
While a mile down the road
Nothing will last
Knowing it’s the way of the world
That some will thrive
While others merely survive
Makes acceptance no easier
Of what a drive it’s been
And that how life is viewed
Depends solely upon
From where it’s been seen
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Metre | 10111 01101 110011 1111 10101 11101011 101111 11110 11110 11001 111100 1011 101101 010011101 11010110 11101 1110110 11101 1001001 111111 11111 1111111 1111 1111 101101 1011 10101101 1111 1101001 10101100 110111 011111 0110001 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 830 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 34 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 677 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 162 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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