Analysis of Running
We all run and hide
We choose to take a ride
Running from things we dare not face
To end up in an unknown place
How far will we wander
We dare not even ponder
Then we dare ourselves to ask
What is our destined task?
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 111101 10111111 11101011 111110 1111010 11100111 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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