Analysis of If I could...



My friend,
If I could take away
Your pain...
The way life hurt you,
Somewhere.

One day,
I'll find the answer
Your world...
Will change,
So wait...

If I could exchange my dreams for your sleepless nights, to let you see, how its really like, show how to beat, not to be the dark... I would....


Scheme XAXXX AXXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11 111101 11 01111 1 11 11010 11 11 11 11101111110111111110111111110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 295
Words 66
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 1
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 70
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted by Val21 on February 22, 2023

Modified on April 26, 2023

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