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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