Analysis of Sweetest Life
To Warsaw
To Lewisburg
To Berlin and back
Surfacing, I gasp
I have never been known to love like this
I have believed
I have been meticulous
I have been like the butterflies
You are the undercarriage
You are the lighthouse
You are the patient, the quiet
the honored back rows
Certainly this will lead to somewhere
To the uncovering, to the compositions
To the closeness and the twilight
To this our...
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 1100 10101 10011 1110111111 1101 1110100 1111010 110100 1101 11010010 01011 10011111 10010010010 1010001 1110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 400 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 1, 3, 4, 1, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on April 26, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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