Analysis of To Why I Write
To Why I Write...
I talk.
I speak.
To you,
To me,
To whoever listens.
I have a dream of ideas that jam
In my brain or is it my soul
Or both and when I begin to write
The dam explodes
The water rushes
The ideas cascade.
I have to paddle fast down on paper
Or I drown in the flow.
I write and swim through the dark
Depths of my thoughts.
I write to get to shore to save
You or me or maybe just to swim.
I backstroke,
Penstroke,
Butterfly and crawl
Upon waves of joy,
Sometimes pain
Sometimes waves of regret.
I write to the world because I have a voice
I want to be heard
To be valid
I want to make music from moments.
I write to share my DNA with the world.
I write to buzz and zap along highways of electrical currents.
I write to the sheer madness of lunacy.
I write to heal, to see, to breathe,
To rattle and hum
In the tempo of time.
I write to hug the world and leave
Gifts of provacative proclivities.
I write to the hearts of men,
The hearts of darkness,
To overcome lives of quiet desperation
I write to live
To exercise my humanity and mythology
I write to please my Maker
To use the gifts given by God.
Philip Tate
2/11/2019
Scheme | A BXXCX XXAXXXDX XXXX XBXXXX XXXE XEC XXX XX XXX XCDX XX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (36%) |
Metre | 1111 11 11 11 11 101010 1101101011 01111111 110110111 0101 01010 001001 1111011110 111001 1101101 1111 11111111 111110111 11 1 1001 01111 011 011101 11101011101 11111 1110 111110110 1111111101 1111010111010010 11101101100 11111111 11001 00111 11110101 1110100 1110111 01110 1101110010 1111 1101010000100 1111110 11011011 101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,090 |
Words | 230 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 8, 4, 6, 4, 3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on February 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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