Analysis of The Look
Steven kissed me in the spring
Robin in the fall.
But Colin only looked at me
and never kissed at all.
Steven's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play.
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
haunts me night and day.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011001 10001 11010111 010111 1011101 10101 101011 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on November 14, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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