Analysis of Before I Go



Before I go, I’d like one more dream ‐
Of places I haven't been and haven't seen.
Maybe of things I have yet to do ‐
Or maybe an old dream that didn’t come true ‐

And all your dreams are stored away ‐
Some take wings, and some just fade ‐
Until we’ve used up all our dreams ‐
Of being wealthy, or rock stars or kings ‐

And life is ending and time grows near ‐
And the end is filled with regrets and fear ‐
Before I go, I’d like one more dream ‐
And maybe there’s one more song I could sing ‐

So, before I go, I’d like one more dream ‐
Of things I‘ve seen and not gotten to do ‐
Before I go, I’d like one more dream ‐
Just one more, or maybe two ‐


Scheme Axbb xxxx ccAx abAb
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 011111111 11011010101 101111111 1101111111 01111101 1110111 011111101 1101011111 011100111 0011110101 011111111 0101111111 1011111111 1111011011 011111111 1111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 677
Words 143
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted by long6806 on April 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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