Analysis of Drifting
You and I both were cut from the same cloth
It seemed as if we both shared the same brain
Memories yet haunt me, tender and soft
Like cars on the highway, you changed your lane
We were once closer even than brothers
Yet through the years of our youth, we both changed
As time moves on, leaves fall, springs to summers
So familiar were we, now estranged
Now when I say "hello" I greet a ghost
In life's journey, we took paths now diverged
Knowing who we were back then hurts the most
I've struggled to make our lives again merged
But I have changed too, a different path
Now must I let go of my other half?
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011011011 1111111011 1001111001 111011111 1011010110 11011101111 1111111110 101001101 1111011101 0110111101 1011011101 11011101011 1111101001 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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