Analysis of SOME Words



Someday I'm sure that I will find
Someway to learn just how
Someone like me might help mankind
Somewhere and maybe now.
Sometime real soon you might just see
Somebody ask me for
Something that soon will only be
Someplace quite near the shore.


Scheme ABABCDCD
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Metre 1111111 11111 1111111 10101 1111111 10111 10111101 11101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 242
Words 45
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 196
Words per stanza (avg) 44

About this poem

Anaphora: Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work

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Written on July 25, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on July 26, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on July 26, 2023

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