Analysis of Are You Sorry



for spoken lies,
those crazy making quilts
pulled over our heads
and told like a child
to a child
playing with matches

for promises,
those pennies to heaven
thrown high and away
to catch as catch can be
dropping to earth
down a wishing well

for making love,
given without much thought
with no thought in mind
to the almost ever
and after all
of here and now what


Scheme XXXAAB BXXXXX XXXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 110101 110101 01101 101 10110 1100 110110 11001 111111 1011 10101 1101 100111 11101 10110 0101 11011
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 345
Words 69
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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