Analysis of LOVE LETTERS



LOVE LETTERS
       Now let me get this Shit here straight.
I should feel bad because you feel bad but
It's you who hurt me!
GOD rest the dead James Brown said...
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE and..
Aretha said.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.!
So Don't Call, Don't Write,
Don't Even Fly a Kite.
YA UNAStaan' Me!!!
I'll Call You If and a when
I get Ever Get Ready,
and Even Then,
You'd Better Man Up to a!!
Long Love Letter!


Scheme ABCDEFEGHHDIDIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 110 11111111 1111011111 11111 1101111 1110 0101 01 11111 110101 111 1111001 1110110 0101 1101110 1110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 402
Words 93
Sentences 16
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 283
Words per stanza (avg) 75

About this poem

I wrote this in jail. I call myself paying tribute to James Brown when he passed away.

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Written on July 31, 2007

Submitted by Fixumsr on March 27, 2024

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