Analysis of 12:20 am



I wish I could text you to say happy birthday
and I wish I could say I’m not struggling to learn how to be alright with the fact I’ll never be yours again
but really, the more selfish part of me wishes I was there to celebrate it with you


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11111111101 011111111001111111011101101 110011011110111110111
Characters 245
Words 52
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 62
Words per line (avg) 17
Letters per stanza (avg) 186
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted by jaxonhurst on October 19, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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