Analysis of Only You
I know what you are,
but only you know who that is
I know what you said,
but only you know what that means
I know how it looks,
but only you know how it feels
I know when you’re missing
—but only you know when you’re gone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 11011111 11111 11011111 11111 11011111 111110 11011111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 257 |
Words | 52 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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