Analysis of Veins



There is a reason

water is clear,

and blood is crimson,

it would be far too  painful

to try and see

the truth in your


Scheme A X A X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 1011 01110 1111110 1101 0101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 136
Words 36
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 15
Words per stanza (avg) 4
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Written on 2016

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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