Analysis of NOT MY TIME
mad hippie poet 1974 (new jersey)
Tomorrow, I'm returning home to where I belong with this paper in my hand and the words to this song. Today, I will sleep one last time in my bed, hanging onto everything and anything that was ever said. Yesterday, I was swimming in the dry river until it was filled with tears. I sat there and cried.
I am walking down these roads with a heavy load on my back, trying to remember why I left, trying to forget why I want to stay. I'm going home, so I need to turn that page of yesterday as I'm still hoping and searching to find my way.
Nothing makes sense; not everything is written in books, but in the stars that have my head spinning, telling me there is more I need to know before I say my thousand goodbyes and go.
Tomorrow is today, and I'm going home. I always thought it would rain on the day I die, but we are in the middle of a heat wave, and everyone's eyes are dry but mine, so just maybe it is not my time.
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Metre | 0110101111011110011001111011111110111010100101110110111000110011111111101 111011110101111101010111101011111111011111111110111100101111 101111011001100111111010111111110111110101 0110101101111111101111110010101101011111111011111 |
Characters | 923 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 177 |
Words per line (avg) | 46 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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