Analysis of I Knew You Wouldn't Understand
I told you
And I knew you wouldn’t
Understand my pain.
I told you
And you said
It didn’t make sense,
Just like I knew
It wouldn’t,
At least not to you.
| Scheme | AbcAbdaba |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 111 01111 0111 111 011 1111 1111 11 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 160 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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