Analysis of Count To One
One plus few are more than two.
But count, how many, who?
One or few may be just two,
Or three, or four, or more.
How few are two, yet how are you
With less just one, undone?
I've had a few and so have you,
Now, can we two be one?
| Scheme | A A A X A B A B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 111101 1111111 111111 11111111 111101 11010111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 21 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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