Analysis of Chita



I see your face without a trace
Of happiness at all.
Please try to smile, at least awhile,
So, I don't have to bawl!


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Ballad stanza
Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 11110101 110011 11111101 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 116
Words 26
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 24

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Written on July 03, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on July 03, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on July 03, 2023

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