Analysis of Original Selves

Jessikah Bailey 1988 (United States)



everyday when a hippo grows,
a butterfly is woven back into its
original self, but if we are woven
back into our original selves then who
would we be, because there are people
in this world who don't know themselves
and one of them is me, see in the real
world there is no turning back, and our
mistakes cannot be erased, but in this
world in my head, being woven back,
is right where i began.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 10110101 0101101011 01001111110 101100100111 111011110 01111101 0111111001 1111101010 0110101101 101110101 111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 383
Words 77
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 307
Words per stanza (avg) 77
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Submitted by jessikah_b on August 16, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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