Analysis of Moving On Without Reason
Moving On Without Reason
I smell the smoke, and feel the heat, of the bridges burning behind me.
Perhaps I should have waited and gave myself more distance, from my tried and true past.
After all, it is these very bridges, that have kept me in life for many years now.
Can one really ever justify letting go, when there is nothing wrong with what they are holding in their hands.
Is it fair to your past, when all that was, is what has made you the person that you are?
And yet all that you have become, is the very source, of what is urging you to move on.
Joe McLaughlin
11/17/03
| Scheme | A X X X X X X AX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010110 11010101101010011 0111110011110111011 101111101011110111011 11101010101111101111110011 111111111111111010111 0111110110101111101111 1010 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 590 |
| Words | 126 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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The poem says it all. It was time for a change and I knew it.
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