Analysis of Bridges



cry me a river
build a bridge
and get over it

but if only he knew how many
oceans I’d cried for him and
how many bridges I’d burned
trying to get over us


Scheme XXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 101 01101 111011110 1011110 1101011 1011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 168
Words 39
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 4
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Written on 2018

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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