Analysis of Today's Little Questions
Can I play question and answer?
Have I found plastic or pearl?
Did she tell me not to want her?
Did she tell me she's a bad girl?
Did our paths cross by accident?
Was it constructed in the stars?
I'm I destiny's fool regent?
Do I control my fate so far?
How much of my past hinders me?
How much of her past hinders her?
Are they part of our destiny?
Is the future more than a blur?
Will this seed have a chance to grow?
Can I wait for her to decide?
Have I the patience to go slow?
Is there enough respect to confide?
How high am I willing to climb,
to meet her on her home field?
Only with the passage of time
will the answers be revealed.
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX DADA EFEF GHGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11110010 1111011 11111110 11111011 110111100 11010001 111110 11011111 11111101 11101100 111110100 10101101 11110111 1111011 11010111 110101101 11111011 1101011 10101011 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 644 |
| Words | 154 |
| Sentences | 18 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
This poem was written about a new love interest
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Written on March 15, 1995
Submitted by ubie58 on January 22, 2023
Modified on March 25, 2023
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