Analysis of A letter to you.
I love you.
That’s a start.
I love you,
and I miss you.
I miss your art.
I miss your face.
I smell your scent when I can’t
sleep.
A stuffed toy,
held in a tight embrace.
It broke my heart
when I said goodbye,
so I gave you my knife
to make sure I’d survive.
| Scheme | A b Aa b c xxxc bxxx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 101 111 0111 1111 1111 1111111 1 011 100101 1111 1111 111111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 277 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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