Analysis of The Lost Highway



Where is the endless highway?
Paved in sweet escape
Rounding turns of mystery
And lit by moonlight rays

Where is the lost highway?
A place of magic and glee
Imaginatively fortified
And inside you and me

I lost my way down the road
And took a dead end path
I forgot to follow the simple flow
And got lost without a map

Down backroads of confusion
Drifting further from the stretch
I prayed in vain for just a sign
For which direction's best

To my dismay I was granted
Yes, given my desired sign
The words it read were slanted
In italics said "just drive"

Driving down those lonely roads
Hitting curves aplenty
I found the faith to just let go
To see which way it sends me

I carried on my weary way
And then I saw a light
Could it be the lost highway
Under the stary night?

The road it turned smooth
As the highway did unravel
I thanked God for the cruise
And the faith that guides my travels


Scheme AXBX ABXB XXCX XXDX EDEX XBCB AFAF XXXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (38%)
Metre 110101 10101 1011100 01111 11011 0111001 01000010 001101 1111101 010111 1011100101 0110101 111010 1010101 11011101 1111 11011110 11010101 0111010 0010111 1011101 101010 11011111 1111111 11011101 011101 111011 100101 01111 1011010 111101 00111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 903
Words 188
Sentences 4
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

I wrote this the other night. It's basically a poem to myself

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Submitted by Risingwerdz on October 27, 2023

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Tim Strauss

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