Analysis of Moss



You’ve grown on me
like moss and ivy,
slowly at first but
before you know it, I’m
covered in you, and I
choose not to remember
what it was like to be naked.


Scheme AABCDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 11010 10111 011111 100101 111010 11111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 160
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Written on 2018

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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