Analysis of Between the Lines
I read your old letters
over and over
looking for
a pause or a clause,
possibly a dash,
to see if you still
cared one iota.
I just couldn't read
between the lines.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 111110 10010 101 01101 10001 11111 11010 11101 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 155 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on November 14, 2016
Modified on April 16, 2023
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