Analysis of Me, by the hand
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
I ran towards the tracks
You ran towards me
The eyes in the back of my head
The train whizzed past
As you took me, by the hand
I have run my whole life
Sometimes racing
Sometimes riding the train
Often waiting for the trains passing
What If that train had caught me instead of you.
Today I could be the one taking your hand in that distant golden land.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHGIE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 11011 01001111 0111 1111101 111111 0110 011001 101010110 11111110111 011110110110110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 352 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 280 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Written on April 18, 2023
Submitted by heathert.34240 on April 18, 2023
Modified on April 18, 2023
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