Analysis of 3:58 am



on the one month anniversary
of the day you left
I brought out my favourite lighter
the one I talked to you about
I keep lighting and blowing it out
remembering how
you told me you loved me
but like all the others
you didn't stay


Scheme ABCDDEAFG
Poetic Form Nonet (22%)
Metre 10110100 10111 1111110 01111101 111001011 01001 111111 111010 1101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 233
Words 49
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 183
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Submitted by jaxonhurst on June 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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