Analysis of Precious
One world
Billions of lives,
Yet some of us
See each as a prize.
There can be
Only one of you,
Natural talents
In all you do.
Each life is precious,
Think before you act,
For once there is a loss
That gift can't come back.
| Scheme | XXAX XBXB AXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 11 1011 1111 11101 111 10111 10010 0111 11110 10111 111101 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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