Analysis of A Reminder

François Giroux 1982 (Canada)



Love to pain
Pain to anger
Anger to hatred
Hatred is blind

An eye for an eye
To remind you and I
Of love we once had
But has now died


Scheme XXXX AAXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111 1110 10110 1011 11111 101101 11111 1111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 126
Words 31
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 52
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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