Analysis of Somebody



Somebody said something
then somebody else did too
But whatever the somebodies said
may or may not have been true

Next somebody else said something
which turned out to be a clue
When the other somebodies nodded
they all knew what they should do


Scheme ABXB ABXB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 10110 110111 110011 1111111 1101110 1111101 1010110 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 245
Words 45
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 22

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Submitted by cubs1969 on November 20, 2021

Modified on March 25, 2023

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