Analysis of You Don't Know Me
Jairica Johnson 1981 (US)
You don't know me
You merely exist in my atmosphere
In apathy and languid acquiescence
Never reaching my core
Never dipping your toes in my eternal spring
Or tasting the fruit of my orchards
Seeing through me
Denying my soul
| Scheme | ABCDEFAG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 110010110 0100010010 101011 101011010101 110011110 1011 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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