Analysis of You are who you are

Jaydon Askew 2007 (Texas)



You are who you are
when your life gets tough.
When your plans fall through and the going gets rough;
Only there, only then, will your true colors show.
Only There, and only then, will you ever truly know.

That you are who you are
when only you seem to care.
When you act before you think,
When you take, when you share.
And when tomorrow seems bleak, and the world is unfair
You are who you are as you stand right there.

You are who you are,
No words are more true.
So don’t try to be somebody,
When you can only be you.
And when your will seems to fade, like clouds in the sky,
Remember, you are who you are
When you laugh, when you cry

‘Vanity, all is Vanity’


Scheme Abbcc adxddd Aefegag f
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 11111 11111001011 101101111101 10101011110101 111111 1101111 1110111 111111 010111001101 1111111111 11111 11111 1111110 1111011 011111111001 01011111 111111 10011100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 674
Words 152
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 6, 7, 1
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 33

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Written on December 06, 2023

Submitted by jaydon77598 on December 06, 2023

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