Analysis of Like a piñata
Why am I alive?
They say I'm alive to shine
Yet they hit me with their bats
And break me like a piñata.
I think of being no more
My corpse only they adore.
Tell me, if I've never hurt you,
Why you hit me back with all your force?
Scheme | XXXX AAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1110111 1111111 01110110 1111011 1110101 11111011 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 233 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem because i was feeling really down due to a friend who never cared for me.
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