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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