Analysis of I HAVE TO GO
mad hippie poet 1974 (new jersey)
What is the shining light that is blinding the writer? What is the new path that the writer is taking? Who requires the writer as the lead in another show? What happens when you find everything you have been searching for, but the shining light starting to blind you is whispering in your ear? Keep marching. There is more.
I have left that path many times to travel down a different road because I liked the sound of the name that dangled from the street sign. It was like it was screaming out at me, and my compass was pointing me in that direction and, many times, leading me in the wrong direction.
I had my music on telling me that the sky would soon be turning blue and no longer will it carry a touch of grey; the song was telling me never again be led astray and to listen to what the universe has to say.
I have to go. I have been playing this part for so long that I have been an ongoing character, and now they need me as the lead in another type of show.
Do not cry; never feel sorry for the stars and planets that have aligned. I have to go for those things and people I thought I may have lost along the way, but I already have and did not know. However, I still have to find that place where I will take my forever rest, and I do not know whose arms I will die in or be buried. All I know is I am being called sorry; I must go.
I can not look back with any regret for those memories that I must forget but with the hope of those that will not say I have to go.
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Metre | 11010111100101101110101101010010101001011101111011110110101101111100011110111 111111011101010010111011011101011111111011101101101010100101101001010 11110110110111110101101110011101110110011101011011010111 111111110111111111110100011111010010111 11110110101010110111111110101111110101110101011110111111111111010101111111110111011111110110111 1111111001111001110111011111111111 |
Characters | 1,482 |
Words | 311 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 191 |
Words per line (avg) | 50 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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