Analysis of 2:53 am



it is strange
how much she means to me
it never hit me when we were together
but now that she’s no longer mine
it hits me like a freight train


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tanka  (60%)
Cinquain  (40%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 111 111111 11011110010 11111101 1111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 149
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted by jaxonhurst on June 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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