Analysis of Cancer I hate you
Philip Pugh 1956 (England)
Cancer I hate you
Cancer I hate you
You grind me down
I try to be calm
I try to be free
But you come back
To haunt me
Cancer I hate you
You stop me living
You hurt my wife
Not once but twice
You ruin my life
Cancer I hate you
You make me sad
For being me
You make me guilty
For being free
Cancer I hate you
For making her sick
For taking her smile
For making me pray
To join her someday
Cancer I really hate you
| Scheme | A Axxbxb Axcxc Axbbb Axxdd a |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 10111 1111 11111 11111 1111 111 10111 11110 1111 1111 11011 10111 1111 1101 11110 1101 10111 11001 11001 11011 1101 1011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 438 |
| Words | 117 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 5, 5, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Written on February 09, 2022
Submitted by l-pugh1 on September 02, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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