Analysis of me and you



our rivers are dying
and so are our seas
polluted by man
with hthe filth
that he leaves
the fish are dying
one by one
very soon now
they/ll all be gone
we say that we care
but this can/t be true
we keep polluting the rivers
me and you


Scheme ABCDEAFGHIJKJ
Poetic Form
Metre 1010110 011101 01011 111 111 01110 111 1011 11111 11111 111111 11010010 101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 222
Words 50
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 183
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted on March 21, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alan Green 'Guppyman'

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