Analysis of Lies
Maria Anderson 1897 – 1993
Sometimes I lie.
I'm a good storyteller, though I know not why
We live to tell our stories, and we tell them through fake eyes
a pen in math, trying to fix wounds with glue,
a lie is all of these things, and sometimes it becomes true.
It can spin in a tornado, and leave you with a wreck
it can also be a false peace, or breathe down your neck
It's described as a horror, things you wouldn't want done to you, so why in the sum of things, do we do it too?
Scheme | AABCCDDC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 10110011111 111110100111111 01011011111 01111110011011 1110001011101 1110101111111 101101011101111110011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 449 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 345 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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