Analysis of A wasted effort

(s.a)Shittu Abubakar 2001 (Kwara)



Gave you my all,
But you deemed it not enough,

Even if I were the rain,
For you, I wouldn't fall again.


Scheme XX XX
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1111 1111101 1011001 11110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 100
Words 22
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 2
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 38
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Written on September 17, 2021

Submitted by Shittuabubakr on September 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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