Analysis of Too Young
You’re too smart,
to be so stupid
Too warm,
to be so cold
Too bright,
to be close minded
Too young
—to be so old
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)
Scheme | XA XB XA XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11110 11 1111 11 11110 11 1111 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 148 |
Words | 29 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 23 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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