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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Submitted by ritchiechelle on November 16, 2023

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