Analysis of What a Wonder



The drives, the songs
The merging of lives
It's slow, almost unnoticeable
Until it hits with full force

Who might I be without them?
You ask yourself
Seeing pieces of a single person
Scattered in every nook and cranny
Anywhere you look or think
The residue of a real life venn-diagram
The evidence of two lives, slowly entwining

It seems so small
And then all the sudden it takes up all the space
Just a breath
And then your entire lung capacity

You want to see them
Hear them
Watch them move and express
Understand the parts of them they keep hidden
The little fractures in their life
Each tiny and almost insignificant facet
Though really, not tiny or insignificant

What a wonder it is
To become so close
To someone whom you would never have imagined
Someone who, without influence from God or fate
Would cease to exist in your stratosphere

Oh what a wonder
The wanderings of life
Who's paths we cross one day
And lives merge the next


Scheme XXAX BXCDEXE AXXD BBXCFXX XXXXX XFXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 01011 1111 0111111 1111011 1101 1010101010 1001001010 101111 0101011110 0100111101 1111 011010111101 101 01101010100 11111 11 111001 0101111110 01010011 11001010010 11011010100 101011 10111 11111101010 11011001111 111010110 11010 010011 111111 01101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 942
Words 177
Sentences 2
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 7, 4, 7, 5, 4
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 29

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Dedicated to human connection, and relationships as time goes on.

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Written on March 16, 2023

Submitted by annalise.j618 on May 15, 2023

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