Analysis of Never Had I
April Farley 1984 (KS)
never had i ever imagined that i would lose you,
never had i thought of what i would do,
never had i wished that were gone,
never had i ever remembered doing anything wrong,
never had i guessed i could feel this way, this young,
never had i ever believed you'd be "my one"
never had i ever endured this much pain,
never had i ever known after so long things wouldn't be the same,
never had i ever realized i could never change your mind,
never had i noticed our feelings were so blind,
never had i pretended that you and i were "us"
never had i dreamed that i could love someone always,
just because
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111001011111 1011111111 10111101 10111001010101 101111111111 101110011111 10111001111 10111011011110101 101110101110111 1011101010011 1011010110101 10111111111 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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