Analysis of Poem 18



You only have one side to you.
You are as one-dimensional as the glazed-over eyes staring back at me.
You had a mission to make yourself into pieces, without the knowledge of what "yourself" is.
Now you are nobody


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4 Line
Metre 11011111 1111010010110110111 11010110101100101011011 1111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 216
Words 42
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 167
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted by riverlushinovich on May 10, 2024

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