Analysis of cheap perfume



I forgive you

even though I probably shouldn’t,

your clothes still sit in my closet

and your cheap perfume bottles in the corner of my room

the smell is too good to waste,

so I spray them on your old pillow that still sit in the bed

on days I miss you the most


Scheme X A A X A A A
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 10111001 11110110 01101100010111 0111111 111111110111001 1111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 274
Words 65
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 8

About this poem

how it felt during the break up with an Australian

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Written on October 18, 2021

Submitted by jaxonhurst on December 04, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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