Analysis of Girl And Boy
Matthew Sean Markonis 1984 (Santa Barbara)
You live your life, or I live mine;
You whisper, “Both die, fine?”
You understand, and I believe;
You whisper, “And we grieve…”
You shall create, and I destroy;
You whisper, “Girl and boy.”
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 11111111 110111 1010101 110011 11010101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Written on March 24, 2002
Submitted by msmarkonis on January 30, 2022
Modified on April 18, 2023
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