Analysis of Self-reflection



Slowly I face up and see,
a man standing in front of me.
His heart once locked, she lost the key.
This man yearns for sympathy.

Lips are trembling, his eyes in pain,
he watched his soul wash down the drain.
He's left unsure, what now remains.
What is the cure? What's left to gain?

He lost sight of all that's right, holding on to all that's wrong.
He is blind to what's still here, and held back by all that's gone.
Still he must try to let go, and he must try to move on.
In life nothing is certain, its road: a tricky one.

I can't help but see some kind of resemblance.
He, much like me, has lost track of his balance.
He, just like me, is now single and free.
And as useless a comment as than one may be,
he was told, too, there's more fish in the sea.

But it's hard to stay on the path of your dreams,
once those are all shattered like glass on the floor.
And it's hard to swim with the current of progress,
when abruptly aborted, like waves on the shore.

When life passes by, there's not much you can do.
Just go with the flow, let it happen to you.
It will bring you back, to where you belong.
All you must do, is grab tight and hold on.

He finally sees that the time has come,
his future and happiness both he will find.
He now turns away from all that is gone,
his past and the mirror both left behind...


Scheme AAAA BBXB CDEX FFAAA XGXG HHCE XIDI
Poetic Form
Metre 1011101 01100111 11111101 1111100 111001101 11111101 11011101 11011111 11111111011111 11111110111111 11111110111111 0110110110101 11111111010 11111111110 1111111001 011001011111 1111111001 11111101111 11111011101 01111101011 101001011101 11101111111 11101111011 1111111101 1111111011 1100110111 11001001111 1110111111 1100101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,285
Words 265
Sentences 23
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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