Analysis of 3:11



when I found out what you had done
I laid on the bathroom floor for hours
feeling sick but unable to do anything but wonder why you did it
I knew losing you would be too painful
so I let the lips that betrayed me tell me they love me


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 111011110 101101011101101111 1110111110 11101101111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 237
Words 53
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 184
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted by jaxonhurst on February 13, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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