Analysis of 2:42 am



the saying goes that the beautiful things in life never come easy
I had thought for the longest time
you were my good thing
because nothing about this catastrophe we called love was easy
and yet we tried so hard to make it work


Scheme ABCAD
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 01011010010110110 11110101 10111 01100110100111110 0111111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 228
Words 45
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 184
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted by jaxonhurst on June 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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