Analysis of Survivors



We are survivors.
We have scars that we
Will never show.
We have wounds that
Will heal in time.
We have been
Beaten up
And broken down
And told we were
Just nothing.
But in the end,
We are survivors;
We have fought
For our lives
And we have won.


Scheme AbcdefghijkAlmn
Poetic Form Tetractys  (53%)
Metre 11010 11111 1101 1111 1101 111 101 0101 0110 110 1001 11010 111 1101 0111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 247
Words 58
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 189
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted by lonely-blue-sheep on April 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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