Analysis of Help me



got to invest my energy else where-
what i thought made me happy ended up tearing me apart
it burned my life and everything in it
i don't think i can pull my pieces back this time
this time- i can't do it alone- someone, please save me


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form
Metre 1101110011 111111010110101 111101001 111111110111 111111011111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 236
Words 49
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 182
Words per stanza (avg) 48

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Hopelessness

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Written on December 05, 2021

Submitted by lexyann1989 on December 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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