Analysis of Another Tomorrow, Another Today



Lighting up the night
blazing
stars are burning out before their time...

I walk onward
looking ahead
don't look back
words once said
that I still hold
painfully tight
to my heart
and in my mind.

I want to look back
just to reflect.
The rear-view mirror
of my soul
Fogs up with tears
and uncertainty
of the future.

Wipe the slate clean.

Inside the dazzling
signs that I missed
along the way,
through my dreams
through the silkscreen
fantasies that tread
through my thoughts.

Trampling what once was
and leaving tracks
that I curiously follow...
creeping...
into another tomorrow.

Sweaty, shaking hands
Savagely grasping
at nothing
but air
Breathing it in...
Gasping.
So I can
live through
another today.


Scheme ABX XCDCXAXX DXEXXXE F BXGXFCX XXHBH XBBXXBXXG
Poetic Form Tetractys  (55%)
Etheree  (25%)
Metre 10101 10 111010111 1110 1001 111 111 1111 1001 111 0011 11111 1101 01110 111 1111 00100 1010 1011 010100 1111 0101 111 101 10011 111 10111 0101 11100010 10 0101001 10101 10010 110 11 1010 10 111 11 01001
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 663
Words 120
Sentences 12
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 8, 7, 1, 7, 5, 9
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dawn L Martone

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