Analysis of For This



I'm waiting for the worst and don't expect a change
when endings never come to all ignored by range
That hope's for those who'd say that ignorance is bliss
when those who'd let the others fight are lives to end for this


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 110101010101 110101110111 111111110011 11110101111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 216
Words 42
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 173
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted by Poetbird on May 24, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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