Analysis of 20:20 Hindsight
Susan Carle 1962 (Edinburgh)
My 20:20 hindsight
Hasn’t done me any good
In fact it’s left me feeling in
A rather morbid mood
I rue the day I left you
But there’s no sense
In vain regret
And if it’s all bad karma
Then I’ve paid my sodding debt
| Scheme | XXXX XXAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 111101 01111100 010101 1101111 1111 0101 0111110 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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My first poem Written circa 1980
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