Analysis of Sweetest Life
To Warsaw
Lewisburg
Berlin and back...
Surfacing, I gasp
I have never been known to love like this
I have believed
I have been meticulous
Like these flawless little butterflies
You are the undercarriage
The lighthouse
The patient of the quiet
Everyone's honored back rows
Certainly this will all lead to somewhere
To the uncovering compositions
To the closeness at twilight
To this our...
| Scheme | XXX X X XXX XXXX X XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 100 0101 10011 1110111111 1101 1110100 11101010 110100 01 0101010 101011 100111111 100100010 101011 1110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 386 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 1, 3, 4, 1, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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