Analysis of Jeans (corrected)
As we journey through life, we lose bits of ourselves
like tattered cuffs of worn jeans
Lost bits of stuff, like dandelion fluff
and sometimes we’re split at our seams
At times our soul’s threadbare, our tears flowing free
Sacred sweet streams of saline
With nothing to draw from our downtrodden hearts-
just the comfort of worn out old jeans
As years leave their marks on both faces and hearts
Time passes, and lessons are gleaned;
the scars that we bear tell a story,
like a worry worn hole in old jeans
Weary and wearing down thin
On a journey, reaching for dreams
We learn to flex and move freely
like a pliant old pair of worn jeans
By the time we solve this life’s riddle
of just what all of it means
We then settle in; snug and safe in our skin-
like a comfortable, worn pair of jeans.
2/18/20 A.B.
Scheme | XAXB CXDA DXCA EBCA XAEA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111111001 1101111 111111001 001011101 111011101101 1011101 11011110101 101011111 11111111001 11001011 011111010 101011011 1001011 10101011 11110110 101011111 101111110 1111111 111001010101 1010001111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 805 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Written on February 18, 2020
Submitted by AngelathePoet on October 28, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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