Analysis of Your Swinging Door
I answered with love,
you questioned with
anger and pain
I then held you close,
but your eyes
failed me again
I told you truly,
as our wishes
dropped to the floor
Then you asked again,
and my heart,
—your swinging door
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | XXX XXA XXB AXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 1101 1001 11111 111 1101 11110 11010 1101 11101 011 1101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 245 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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