Analysis of Own Life
When we don't live our own life,
We don't know what we're missing.
Just put away our radar
Which scans the choice of others.
Our internal gyroscope
Can keep the soul in balance.
Idols are the barriers
To self-selective living.
Losers only talk of life,
They never really live it.
Now is the time to be free
And have an gateless future.
We can take a lifetime off
And rest and love and live it.
The only things we will lose
Are the prison bars and chains.
| Scheme | ABCDEFDBAGHIJGKL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111011 1111110 1101101 1101110 1001010 1101010 1010100 1101010 1010111 1101011 1101111 011110 111011 0101011 0101111 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 439 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 354 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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