Analysis of You Are Something

Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)



You Are Something

You are something
You’re not nothing
You are alive
You’re not nothing
You are breathing
You’re not nothing
You are something

Edwin Tanguma   Aka   Dagesh   4/21/2024


Scheme A AAxAaAA x
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 1110 1110 1101 1110 1110 1110 1110 10010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 192
Words 32
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 7, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 12

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This one is all about the cows and the bees…I plead the 5th…

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Written on April 21, 2024

Submitted by EdwinRayTanguma on April 21, 2024

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