Analysis of Without You

Marissa Aragon 2003 (Colorado)



I need you
Like I need oxygen
And each day
I don’t have you,
My air starts
Running out of my lungs
And my body starts
Dying slowly


Scheme ABCADEDF
Poetic Form
Metre 111 111100 011 1111 111 101111 01101 1010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 135
Words 32
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on December 12, 2021

Submitted by marissaaragon1 on January 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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