Analysis of Ms. Lily
She walks in the beauty of youth,
Apparently untouched by the woe of life.
Clearly beyond my pale,
from where have you come?
Were you chosen by the gods of selection,
for me?
Why does my heart beat, so very strong,
for that what I cannot touch?
For I am three times twenty four,
much too old for you.
I would that I had met you when ,
I was thirty one.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001011 01000110111 100111 11111 01101011010 11 111111101 1111101 11111101 11111 11111111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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love at first sight?
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