Analysis of SHATTERED
Michelle Ritchie 1981 (Aberdeen)
Jumped from 62feet
SHATTERED with life
SHATTERED with metal illness
SHATTERED my heel
Still shattered with life...
| Scheme | X A X X A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 111 1011 1011010 1011 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 147 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 19 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 3 |
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Read on... still struggling with metal illness. .. still here...
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