Analysis of Body Count
Darling,
I never asked you
for your body count.
And to be frank, I
honestly don’t care.
The number of lovers we
shared our beds with is
irrelevant, so why do you
need to waste your
precious air?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGBHE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) |
| Metre | 10 11011 11101 01111 10011 0101101 110111 01001111 1111 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 196 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Written on 2018
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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