Analysis of ...................little sister.....is gone....................



little sister
little sister be gone
my prayer every day

not that you are gone from me
i cry beg and plee
i think of you with me
and fallto my kneees
hoping someone will
hear my plee
' big sisters go first'...

that  why i will always
watch you as you sleep...


Scheme XXX ABACBBX CX
Poetic Form
Metre 1010 101011 111001 1111111 11101 111111 0111 1011 111 11011 11111 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 256
Words 55
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 7, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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