Analysis of Forever Like That
Would you lease me your heart
if I gave you a dime
Would you lend me your trust
if I willed you my time
Would you seize my devotion
with its mortgage in tact
Would you love me just once
—or forever like that
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April. 2015)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 111101 111111 111111 1111010 111001 111111 101011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 247 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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