Analysis of Flying By
As time travels by, life goes by fast
As the car travels, roads fly past
Every step I take, I gain
Only to cope with pain
I bleed to often
To be caught
If only
I could
Blame
| Scheme | AABBCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet |
| Metre | 111011111 10110111 10011111 101111 11110 111 110 11 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 165 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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