Analysis of It's Never Too Late
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
Let go of worries.
Don't dwell on the end.
The destination's not
What really eclipses.
With every step,
We construct
Our own fate,
The life we fashion.
It's never too late.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (56%) |
| Metre | 11110 11101 011 110010 11001 101 1011 01110 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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