Analysis of But Now I See
I will not trade
my serenity for
madness.
This sadness only
lasts a little while.
I don't want to be
in Wonderland anymore.
Everyone is crazy.
whichever way I
turn, left or right,
it's lunacy.
I deal in reality now.
I won't play croquet with
the queen, no matter
how much she smiles.
The game is fixed, and I
know it.
The deck is stacked.
The cards are laid,
and I see the
spade behind
her eyes.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 101001 10 11010 10101 11111 01001 10110 01011 1111 1100 110101 111011 01110 1111 011101 11 0111 0111 0110 101 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 396 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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