Analysis of If I Don't
If I don’t first have your eyes,
will I ever have your ears
If I don’t first have your mind,
will I ever have your heart
If I don’t first have your eyes,
will I ever have your ears
If I don’t first hold you far,
— will I ever hold you near
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2015)
Scheme | AB xx AB xx x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 1110111 1111111 1110111 1111111 1110111 1111111 1110111 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 291 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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