Analysis of Life's Work
I can't run from my memories
Then where would I be?
I can't fear the tomorrow
I'm hoping to see.
I can't be anyone
I can only be me.
His life I've been given
I'll live happily.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111100 11111 111001 11011 11110 111011 111110 11100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 170 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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