Analysis of Swim
Life is for the young.
I must be part bum.
Why don’t I do more?
Not enough talent to score.
No, I don’t want to be a fool.
I once dove into a pool.
Scheme | ABCCDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 11111 11111 1011011 11111101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 151 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Written on December 09, 2022
Submitted on December 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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