Analysis of Journeys
Jackie Newport 1952 (Chicago)
Where are we going
We don't always know
How will we get there
There's a lot of choices
How are we to decide
A thorny question at best
Sometimes we make the choices
Sometimes others make them for us
Other times fate intervenes
No matter, we get there eventually
Then we wonder was it worth the effort
Life is always full of roads not taken
Sometimes we wish we would have gone
The other way, or waited until later
We never know where life will lead us
But who wants to know everything
That lies in wait for us
Down the road and in the future
We might question our choices
Perhaps even have some regrets
But that's a part of life
And we don't always get to choose
Every little thing along the way
So life is a journey
Enjoy it while you can
By Jackie Newport
| Scheme | AXXBXXBCXDXXXECACEBXXXXDX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 1111 11111 101110 11111 0101011 0111010 01101111 101101 11011101000 1110111010 111111110 01111111 01011100110 110111111 1111110 110111 10100010 11101010 01101101 110111 0111111 1001010101 111010 011111 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 763 |
| Words | 151 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 25, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 302 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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