Analysis of Lost



And as you were expecting me to help you out of your grave,
I was digging my own.
The words you expected but didn't give back cut deep into my skin and dug through my bones.
I helped you when you were losing your friends,
But where were you when I was losing myself?


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Tanka  (20%)
Metre 011001011111111 111011 0110101101111011101111 1111101011 1101111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 270
Words 58
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 207
Words per stanza (avg) 54
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Written on September 23, 2021

Submitted by mileso.51358 on December 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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