Analysis of I'm Not What I Used To Be
It is a cognitive mistake, from blind-sided inquest,
to say "this is the one who was"
when bit changes attest.
Naivete has turned to guess with doubt to catechize.
Forsaken, daft credulity
has clarified disguise.
Hard-knocks created me "streetwise" experimentally.
Trial and error was success
grasped incrementally.
Rectification reconstructs once shattered "figurines."
Transformation gives origin
to fresh habit routines.
"I am not what I used to be:" non sum qualis eram.
Experience has altered me
like a battering ram.
| Scheme | ABA BCX CXC DXD ECE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101000111101 11110111 111001 00111111111 01010100 11001 1101011000100 10010101 100100 0010111001 0101100 111001 111111111111 01001101 101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 508 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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