Analysis of Half



You asked if he was my other half.
I said “no,” and your face lit up like
it never had before, and it fell when
I said I’m not a half.


Scheme ABCA
Poetic Form
Metre 111111101 111011111 1101010111 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 140
Words 33
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Written on 2018

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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