Analysis of The drifter
No matter where i go,in time I always come to know
There is bound to be, somewhere else I'd rather call home.
As a child, i watched the world grow
from the backseat of a car rollin' down the highway.
I learned how to hustle, and I learned how to lie
But the biggest lesson was, it's worth nothing to cry.
i got bit long ago and now i carry, that drifter's soul.
No matter where i go, I always come to know
There is bound to be, somewhere else I'd rather call home.
never run from a fight, you don't hide from a good time
Make love rhyme, and life will be just fine.
I come from a long line of people
who have always looked for another hill to climb.
No matter where i go, I always come to know
There is bound to be, somewhere else I'd rather call home.
I've been barefoot in the Arizona red sands.
I got to play cowboy up in the badlands.
I've swam in the ocean and stayed in paradise
But in the end, i always realize
No matter where i go, in time I come to know
There is bound to be, somewhere else I'd rather call home.
Scheme | aBacddeABfghfABiijkaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111111111 111111111011 10111011 100110110101 111110011111 1010101111011 11110101110111 11011111111 111111111011 1011011111011 111011111 111011110 11111010111 11011111111 111111111011 1110001011 111111001 11001001010 10011110 110111011111 111111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,022 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 778 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 208 |
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Golden sites lose there glimmer
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