Analysis of All Alone



After birth.
Off to college.
On my own.
Back home.
Parents gone.
and siblings gone.

On Beethoven:  
They say he flamed high but didn’t last long.

Sit yourself down and think things through.  


Scheme XXXXAA XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 101 1110 111 11 101 0101 1100 111111111 10110111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 195
Words 43
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Written on February 22, 2022

Submitted on February 22, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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