Analysis of You're Welcome

Chris Pearson 1977 (Winnipeg)



Welcome to a boring existence
Whiled away, forced to stay
To express your love
Give your strength
When their strength
Is what you're holding on to
They are enough, you're too much
Haunting their life
While you're still alive
Is it right
Is this the "supposed to" part
Gripping our soul, devoured whole
Only to feed for a day
Cannot be taught to feed for a lifetime
Build up regret equity bought with fear
Hedging bets against a market crash
Investing safely now
A labor of love
For all you hold dear


Scheme ABCDDEFGHIJKBLMNOCM
Poetic Form
Metre 101010010 101111 10111 111 111 1111011 1101111 1011 11101 111 1100111 101010101 1011101 101111101 1101100111 101010101 010101 01011 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 481
Words 92
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 400
Words per stanza (avg) 92
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Submitted on January 21, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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