Analysis of I counted all stars



I closed my eyes,
And counted stars.
I didn't see,
Even a scar.
My mother asked,
"How many son?"
I said,
None.
There were really none!
And here,
I was done.
Counting all the stars.


Scheme ABCDEFGFFHFB
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 0101 1101 1001 1101 1101 11 1 10101 01 111 10101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 181
Words 46
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 131
Words per stanza (avg) 35

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Life and reality.

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Written on August 11, 2022

Submitted by vipshiva456 on August 10, 2022

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Vipul Swami

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