Analysis of Maybe
Maybe I’ll remember,
maybe you will too
Maybe once it mattered,
maybe more to whom
Maybe this will lessen,
maybe it will salve
Maybe there’s forgiveness,
maybe—maybe not
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 10111 101110 10111 101110 10111 101010 10101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 212 |
Words | 32 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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