Analysis of You



You were with me for my rise
You stood by me in my fall
For it is you without
That I would have no life at all


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Ballad stanza
Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 1011111 1111011 111101 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 110
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

For my wife

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Written on December 27, 2022

Submitted by Gardnert1987 on December 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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