Analysis of You wish you didn't
How can you be so fine,
When you know someone is dying,
Not actually dying but the feeling inside,
They changed because you left their side,
You cheer them up,
Make them smile,
You almost like their world,
They looked on you,
As you look into their eyes,
Now they depressed and living in the dark,
How can you smile in their face and ask if things are oh okay?
Without wanted to kiss their face,
And say things are okay,
Don't you wish you didn't make that one small miskate.
Scheme | X X A A X X X X X X B X B A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 1111110 110010101001 11011111 1111 111 11111 1111 1110111 1101010001 11110110111111 01101111 01111 11111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 26 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on July 03, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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