Analysis of Never Explain
Once I tell you what it means,
the cell walls isolate
Other meanings locked inside
—no hope of an escape
(Inspired By Bob Dylan’s Comments To Dick Cavett)
Scheme | XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111 01110 1010101 111101 0101110101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 154 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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