Analysis of Don't Give Up



We came from a wonderland,
Into this widow’s land.
Our true selves fade.
Seeing the innovations.

In our creative minds,
We long to find ourselves.
Making new moves,
To be who we are.

We forget our endless knowledge.
From our past,
We seek constant growth.
We think we know what happened.

We, in fact, are blind,
To the greatest happening of life.
We knew not, when to be born,
And know not, when to die.

If we can let the world,
Return to its nature,
Then is the becoming,
Of great things.

If we can just know,
Life gives us what we are,
Our reality is in the mind.
We will sure return.

Wonders filled with honey,
The unpredictable waves,
Life an endless path,
We know we do nothing.

The universe, in unison,
With our deepest desire.
And we just need,
Not to go.


Scheme AAXX XXXB XXXX CXXX XBDX EBCX XXXD XBXE
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 011101 10111 100010 0100101 1111001 1011 11111 101101010 1101 11101 1111110 10111 101010011 1111111 011111 111101 011110 110010 111 11111 111111 10101001 11101 101110 001001 11101 111110 0100100 11010010 0111 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 734
Words 144
Sentences 16
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted by Theme on June 16, 2018

Modified on April 14, 2023

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