Analysis of Heather



You were born with Down Syndrome.
You were a couple days old when
you were diagnosed with a bad heart.
The doctors decided to operate to make
it better.
You got older and your pain of having few
friends grew.
When you were five years old you met a
friend just like you.
You got along so well until one day you
had a dream that your dear friend was
going to be gone.
You were upset with her and you fought.
Then one Sunday afternoon, she collapsed.
She died of a bad heart.
You are lonely again because of what people
think.
You understand much more than others, even
more than they know.


Scheme ABCDEFFGFFHIJKCLMNO
Poetic Form
Metre 101111 10010111 10011011 0101011011 110 11100111101 11 110111110 1111 11011101111 10111111 10111 100110011 11101101 111011 111001011110 1 1011111010 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 596
Words 126
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 461
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted by jentagirl on January 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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