Analysis of Tackling Shadows
Life full of adversity, controversy, catastrophe
Every moment of pain, sorrow, and grief
Football helps me escape my misery
Sometimes autumn dreams turn into fall nightmares
Never again will my sanctuary turn into my prison
Never again will my escape turn into a trap
I'll give an all out effort to replace an ill comforted life
Play with passion for every fan that ever showed me compassion
Go all out for the little kid who can't
because of physical limitations
Sixty minutes of fun to erase the wall of hurt life has offered me!
| Scheme | A X A X B X X B X X A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101001000100 10010111001 111011100 0110110111 100111100101110 1001110110101 111111011111001 11101100111011010 1111010111 011100010 101011101011111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 521 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 11 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on November 11, 2010
Modified on April 20, 2023
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