Analysis of YESTERDAY
JP. 1948 (United Kingdom)
Yesterday’s words are falling away
Yesterday’s words mean nothing today
Yesterday’s words have no use anyway
To someone who wants to be no one today
Yesterday’s sentiment cannot be replayed
Today for the straggler that overstayed
It meaning is caught but stands now delayed
No, yesterday’s word has no dues to be paid
Yesterday’s sight of things yet to come
Disregarded by most but read by just some
Are all that is left when all’s said and done
The remains of a day when life weighed a ton
If there’s a new day can I write some more?
Of loving and hatred and how I felt sure
Will it mean anything if I write of life’s gore?
Or will it be ignored as your eyes close the door?
But yesterday’s words now have fell to the ground
Hitting the earth with no contact sound
And if I try hard I can see where they lie dead
In an unwritten style that cannot be read
So today I might try to set more inverse
Regarding these thoughts encompassed in verse
In a titanic struggle to try to converse
As I read what I write in this script to rehearse
Yet yesterday’s words are no good for today
They cannot wrest the meaning from that I must say
I’ll leave a blank space where words should have been
And maybe you will guess what it is that I mean.
Scheme | AAAA BBBB CCDD EXEE FFGG HHHH AAXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 10111001 10111001 10111110 1111111101 1010010101 011010101 1101111101 1101111111 10111111 0101111111 1111111101 00110111101 1101111111 11001001111 11110111111 111101111101 1101111101 10011111 011111111111 01010111011 10111111101 0101101001 000101011110 111111011101 1101111101 110101011111 1101111111 010111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,240 |
Words | 239 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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