Analysis of Injury



Your fists may injure my body
Your words may injure my reputation
But your thoughts, that drive both word and action, may injure yourself only


Scheme ABA
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11110110 111101010 11111110101100110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 140
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on October 03, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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