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
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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Submitted by nicholasa.55516 on September 05, 2024

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Nicholas C Adkins

 · 1987 · Ohio

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