Analysis of The Joke



Mari jokes,
Sadie laughs,
I laugh with them,
But inside I hurt.


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 101 101 1111 10111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 61
Words 12
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 12

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The names are not real.

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Written on October 25, 2021

Submitted by ZoeeChinelle on October 25, 2021

Modified by ZoeeChinelle on October 25, 2021

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